Locusts and Honey

Locusts and Honey

So I know this is my third poem I’ve published this week but I was inspired by a wonderful poem. Thus, this is an after poem , because it’s inspired by the poem “locusts” by

Haley Baumeister

https://www.ekstasismagazine.com/poetry/2024/locusts

Locusts and Honey

“You’ll restore what the locusts have eaten”

or so, Lord, You say.

but I still hear the locusts chewing,

chomping the years away.

They’ve eaten away

something I’ve held dear

And my grief grows

more exhausting each year.

“How long O Lord,

will You let the locusts keep eating?

I think I may

prefer a beating.”

“Even though you’ve had to eat

the locusts themselves My child,

fear not, for I have provided

fresh honey, sweet and wild.

When locusts swarm your way,

I send the honey too

Child of mine in the desert,

I have not forgotten you.”

And though the locusts taste bitter,

I’m tasting the honey too.

“O taste and see the Lord is good!”

How sweet those words, how true!