Picture this: four children on a playground,
\nGathered around a freshly discovered corpse.
\nThe bee had buzzed, surely;
\nHad lived, had laughed, had loved;
\nAnd so the only appropriate response was clearly
\nTo bury the creature, fallen leaves for a shroud.<\/p>\n
It had not, to our knowledge, stung anyone;
\nIt had not done anything but exist;
\nThat was all required for death to take its own.<\/p>\n
Yet that small life had value;
\nIts existence was enough
\nTo merit the respect of funeral and honor of mourning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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