We Are All Bees By Sarah Blondin

Created by Sarah Blondin, this short 2-minute reading is a poem reflecting on how humans and bees are alike, as described by Sarah witnessing a bee's struggle. Just a quick listen to help put your day (and your life?) in perspective.

Transcript

We are all bees by Sarah Blondin.

I was wrestling with an incessant fear the other day and my dad said,

Be happy there is nowhere else to go.

We can only resist until the resistance goes and then we are back in the rest of being.

A bumblebee flew through my open window and feverishly began to push his small winged body against the pane of glass.

I watched him trapped behind a clear wall with the just out of reach world of light glinting on the other side.

The bee,

Fearing his end,

Repeatedly knocks his head against the glass only to burn a hole in his wing.

One small pause and he would feel the wind coming through the crack he flew in from back of him.

One small pause and he would hear the robin singing on the birch tree just outside the wide open window.

He can't hear it for the engine of his wings is making too much noise.

If you try to help him before he has gotten tired,

He will refuse your gesture of generosity and continue to force against the wall.

He is unable to see it as the hand of grace ushering it to freedom.

We are all bees in some way or another trapped behind a wall of glass anxiously trying to reach the light innocently burning holes in our wings.

Not noticing the cool wind blowing through the window just to the left of us.

The easy coil guiding us into the field.

If only we could stop long enough to see there's nowhere else to go.

Reviews

Wow. Such a profound poem. Recommend multiple plays as there is lots to unpack here though the poem is short. Beautifully recited, too. Thank you, Rob. 💖🙏

Thank You
Ellen
CA

Great message to start the day.

I love Sarah Blondin

So much honesty

Absolutely wonderful 👍

Excellent thread. Thank you for sharing this article

Love Sarah ..and this. I felt like a bee a bit today. There’s a hive of hornets 🐝 in my siding by the bedroom window. At first I thought it was honeybees ,and was looking for a beekeeper to come and take them so they wouldn’t be harmed by insecticide. Then a closer look revealed they are hornets. The other morning I heard a loud noise by the window .It was my husband spraying the siding with repellent and water . Well .. all of a sudden all these bees appeared in the basement! Not flying ,but crawling :( I know it’s not safe to have a bees nest in your siding however it saddened me. There’s still bees buzzing around there.
They still want to get to the queen …even if they die. Animals and people are a lot alike. Thanks for sharing Sarah’s work .

Thank you for sharing this! I am such a bee… 🐝 There’s something comforting about the realization.

Thank you for sharing this beautiful lesson. Namaste,🐝

Love this idea, the metaphor of our struggle with that of a bee (feeling trapped behind the glass, and burning out instead of resting and waiting.) It was surprising not to hear Sarah’s voice though. Thank you for the lovely metaphor however.

Enjoyed ✌️🐝

So simple, for this overanalytical being, called Me. Namastè🍃

Love that this is on here, thank you for sharing it maybe better if she read it. She’s amazing!

Sarah’s my ultimate favorite.

A listen to self lesson to release control for freedom to Be!

Thank you🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻So true. Meditation is a way to step back, be still, gently leading us to the open window...