BE A BEE

I want to laugh loudly

Openly where ever I please

No restrictions about it

My laughter should touch the other’s heart

And not thought of as sound pollution

Let them shut their ears the refined ones

But my mouth I will surely open

And make my soul happy

How delicately stupid they look

with their hands on their mouths

Stifling the soul’s sound

Why not fully throttle it

Why whimper like a puppy

Why fake them into your

ugly coquettish eyes

to please the fakes

Oh! How I detest these cultured fakes

Kept away from them, lest they tar me

Fools let it resonate in the air

and spread here and there

and awaken those

who have forgotten to laugh

How sick are they who

try to curb this magic

Wanting to become

Leonardo da Vinci’s Monalisa maybe.

And call it etiquette.

I rather be the lovely bee

Buzzing in the air

Singing my songs

Loud and clear

Vibrating my wings

Not tamed, not shamed

But disturb me

I sting thee

Openly and gleefully.

©sunita grover raina2021

11/11/21

India

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