TO BUMBLE BEES
-
Anuradha
Bhattacharyya (India)
Buzz
off.
Your
threats don’t deter me.
Your
slight warnings
Can’t befuddle
me.
From
the long learning
Since
childhood
To the
new cultures I’ve met,
Why
should I doubt my place?
There’s
a lot to do –
A lot
more to explore
Before
I fall prey to your sting,
Until
then, buzz off.
I say,
If the
little things I do
Do not
qualify me
As an
individual entity,
What
should my life in society be?
There’s
a valley of the low
Lazy
thugs of time
Jabbing
at nothing
With
their verbiage;
Go
sting them hard.
Take
their tongues away.
Buzz
off.
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