Upon a tree I chanced to see a travel weary bumblebee frustrated in his search for nectared flower Upon a flower he did light and died upon that second night though I would sooner stay that fateful hour
A lesson learned by such as I who from afar must feel you die and dying too myself in tiny leaps But you are gone and I am here my soul is numb, my mind unclear my vision so contracts to He who sleeps
A poem I had forgotten about, written for a close friend a few months after learning of his death, during a period of abject grief. Written 28 December 2002.