The bee and the flower...

On Pleasure by Khalil Gibran


And now you ask in your heart,
"How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure
from that which is not good?"

Go to your fields and your gardens,
and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee
to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.

For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure
is a need and an ecstasy.

People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.

Too tired tonight to string together my own words, but this poem seemed appropriate to the image, and I found it rather beautiful.