Returned to Life

Bulbs and buds have been patient,

Biding their time for what they were promised would come.

Slowly, slowly the dark curtains are pulled back

And what is new is revealed behind;

New light, new life, new breath in the air.

Bulbs and buds emerge, and reap

the rewards of their long, still epoch;

Returned to Life

In splendour

and colourful bloom;

The brevity of their life compensated by their

Unmatched beauty.