Couplets Poem by Cheyenne Price

honey, are we not eating the bee's 'love juice'
is it not the result of their hard labor

consider leaves to be the litter of trees
but forgive them for helping us breathe

the cloth diaper advocates use toilet paper themselves
and canned goods sit untouched on their shelves

maybe the sun is not wanting to smile
i hold nothing against its inevitable rile

we give much of our imagery such bad names
vicious aggressors in an unfair game

many things in life have to earn our favor
when they should be the result of our hard labor

2/2011