Do you make honey
\nWith your slander?
\nOr is it a nest
\nBuried beneath soil?
\nUnderground caverns
\nTwisting paper
\nBirthing stingers of lies
\nPaper thin
\nThe nest you dwell within
\nDo you find yourself
\nWalking the corridors alone
\nDry and crumbling
\nWhile you gather others to congregate?
\nIs it the sweet nectar you seek
\nAs what the honeybees
\nWho busily toil
\nAnd here, you want to keep it in a jar
\nUntil it crystalizes
\nThen put it under the heat
\nIn order for it to pour for you
\nAnd your paper words
\nAbsorb into the walls
\nYou find yourself stuck
\nWith stingers blindly
\nFinding your flesh
\nLike thorns from a rose
\nThey tear
\nYet never flower.
\nYet my garden of clover
\nFeeds the production of
\nWhat moves slowly
\nAs I pour the work into myself
\nand God’s word into yours.
\nYou cannot escape
\nThe entrance sealed
\nIn a garden veil of love
\nA glue that purifies
\nAn antiseptic that cures
\nAll the wounds embittered
\nAnd heals with gentleness
\nAnd slowly it drips in
\nHealing the soul.
\nI nourish the bees with truth
\nYou could free yourself
\nBut your tongue is a dull sword
\nAnd succumbs to the fluid amber
\nKeeping your own self trapped
\nWithin your paper deceits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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