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Bee Stings


Your words sting, the way a bee does after it sits on my shoulder And looks for the perfect spot to slip its fiery stinger into. But I will rise up and become my own beautiful, The way a sunflower is, Before picked, Before it loses the beauty That you stole from it.
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