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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