gajanan mishra (3rd April 19sixty / Tikapali, Patnagarh, Balangir, Odisha, India)

You are not here O bee
And I am blooming
I know when I bloom
You come uninvited.

I know you bear sting
You have hairy body
And a waist between
Thorax and abdomen.

You are solitary O bee
You are also living in
Complex social colonies
Collecting nectar
Is your prime aim.

O bee, I know you are
Not alone and I know
You are essential to
The reproductive process
Of many flowers and
I bloom.