Eerie Mellification: The Dark Struggle for Immortality
In days of old, a strange and eerie thing
Was done by men who sought eternal fame
They took the bees, and put them in a ring
And fed them on their honey till they came
To form a sweet and maddening hive of pain
Then, when the bees had lost their buzzing voice
The men took them and made them sweet again
By soaking them in honey, their sweet choice
This process, called mellification, was strange
For what it did was turn the bees to food
And yet, it seemed to have a deeper range
A sense of mystery and a darker mood
For in this act, we see the human mind
The struggle for eternal life we find
The bees, once living, now are made to die
And in their death, we see our own demise
For though we search for immortality
We cannot find it, no matter how we try
And so we turn to strange and dark ways
To find the key to life that we desire
We take the bees and make them sweet, we say
And in their sweetness, we see hope and fire
But is it not a twisted kind of hope
To take the lives of creatures for our gain
To use them as a means to help us cope
With the fear of death that we cannot restrain
For in this act of mellification, we see
The darkest parts of human history
We see the desperation, the sheer will
To find a way to live forevermore
We see the sacrifice, the dark thrill
Of taking life, and using it for more
And in this, we see the essence of our souls
The struggle for existence, and the tolls
We pay to live, to find our place in time
And yet, it seems, we cannot find our way
For though we search, and though we climb
We cannot escape the night and day
And so we turn to mellification
As a means to find the life we crave
And yet, in doing so, we find damnation
In taking life, we send ourselves to the grave
For in this act, we see the darkest part
Of human nature, and the human heart.
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About this poem
The poem explores the theme of human desire for eternal life and the lengths we will go to achieve it. The process of mellification, which involves taking bees and feeding them honey until they form a hive, is used as a metaphor for the human search for immortality. The poem suggests that this search leads to a dark and twisted form of hope and that in taking life for our own gain, we ultimately bring about our own demise. The poem also touches on the idea that in our quest for eternal life, we see the essence of our souls and the tolls we pay to live. The act of mellification is portrayed as the darkest part of human nature and the human heart. more »
Written on April 29, 2020
Submitted by Mawphniang.Napoleon on February 19, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABABCDXD EFEF GG HXIH XJKJ LCLC II MJMX NN OKOK CPXP QQ JK |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 2,272 |
Words | 470 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 4, 2, 2 |
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