The Beekeeper

by S.M. Shade

“I think love is what we are at our core before the world puts its hands on us. I don’t know if it’s negative or positive or somewhere in-between, but it’s human. It’s what we do, what we’re best at.”

“But that’s the price we all pay to love each other. Love and grief are braided together. We don’t get to choose between them or opt out of either. That’s life.

“I love you to the edges of my sanity. If I felt any more, there’d be nothing of me left, only you filling the space.”