Life Returns

In blossoms,

Tight like bullets,

Aching for action.

Following the deadly season

Of frost burnt flowers,

Frozen in time;

Of brittle leaves

Trembling on stark branches

Pulsed by the merciless wind,

Sunlight spears

Rain upon nascent, eager earth;

Birdsongs pierce the still

Like dawn’s reveille bugle;

Bulbs awake,

Explode up from darkness.

Life returns like a new soldier,

Magazine full of purple buds,

Renewing the eternal war

Against death.