The Mystery of Bees

In the world of bees,

all is not as it seems.

Some are workers.

Others are queens.

 

But, if destiny is true

and if Nature had her way,

all the bees in the hive

would be queens fit to reign.

 

Nature loses out, though,

for the nurses in the hive

prepare a home too small

for anything but a worker inside.

 

And the worker's meager food,

along with a cell, cramped and small,

transform something created for royalty

into something serviceable to all.

 

We are like the bees,

destined to be queens,

but chance and nurture

often prevent our royalty.

 

But God has a plan

of redemption for every man,

and a hive full of queens

is a honeyless hive indeed.

 

inspired by George MacDonald