Heaven as
a police state.
Others imagine
a free market.
Heaven on earth.
God bestowed religion
upon humanity. Suffering
as a discipline and with that,
we learned to disappear.
Before we were hunted,
before they came
to steal us,
before we were sold,
before we were pushed away,
quarantined, stripped of inalienable rights,
before
a rape
as literal as transparent
(doesn’t hide its motives),
we learned to disappear.
And with us, the bees.
Now they scared.