# Poolside Bee

Author: Apolarbear17
Tags: Abstract, Bee, Poetry, Pool, Small Struggles, pondering, survival, vacation, water

Usually in December I go on a trip to DR that’s become part vacation and part memorial trip for lost family. Last year was no different and that usually means a poem stemming from grief on my way back. Things were a little different this time. I wanted to write something a little less focused on the more overwhelming feelings of grief, loss, etc. that I typically write when I come back and instead make this poem about a smaller experience that still had some of those themes. It also took a little longer because December is already a rough month for me but then I got sick in the last few days of it on top of everything and that pushed this into being the first poem of the new year.

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Poolside Bee&nbsp;

 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By: A.X. Bueno&nbsp;

 

 

You jumped into the pool without a second thought&nbsp;

 

New bee in the pool&nbsp;

 

Trying hard to swim and flap those wings&nbsp;

 

What did you think would be waiting for you in here

 

Did you expect honey or sweets that made the risk worth the hypothetical reward&nbsp;

 

Or was it just impulse that propelled you this way forward&nbsp;

 

I'd consider instinct but for a bee to jump into the pool ignores the instinct to stay alive&nbsp;

 

For if you'd have stayed away from the water

 

Flew somewhere else you might have survived

 

Like by some sweet drink or through the air&nbsp;

 

But instead you're in the water in front of me and I can't help but care&nbsp;

 

Interrupting my swim like plenty of bugs before&nbsp;

 

A few alive like you barely are and most not like your future fate

 

I grab a plastic cup meant for the trash&nbsp;

 

You're not the first bug I've felt I could scoop on up&nbsp;

 

And take on out of here to make this pool a bit more clean&nbsp;

 

A task I'm pretty sure is futile&nbsp;

 

I'm no pool cleaner and so much fell and keeps falling in&nbsp;

 

But I figured I could help clean a little but the bee doesn't last

 

Too much water and too many tiny waves kept dragging it under but it still floats the same&nbsp;

 

I expected as much from something so small against a pool this size&nbsp;

 

But that doesn't help me or this bee that I knew couldn't be saved&nbsp;

 

So I use my plastic cup to try and pick it up again and again&nbsp;

 

Till I succeed in getting it in to escort to a place less watery for its' grave &nbsp; &nbsp;  
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Source: https://sofurry.com/s/Rm0Db43m