Vicious Spring - Chelsey

Vicious Spring




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Daisy, heat, tendril, meander, painful, stone, bubble, stalk, meat, swallow.

Vicious Spring

Written by Chelsey 

The changing of seasons will always be one that shows a love and hate relationship between the Gods. It is the changing of the guard as one would say. 

As the season starts, we can watch a bud start to form on the top of a flower and the tendril form of a vine, we see the good of the returning of life and we are happy. We see the bubble of the water as it melts from the ice. We look to the field and see the stalk push out of the ground, well on its way to form the petals of the daisy. Flowers that will fill the horizon with color. We feel the welcome heat from the sun as it rises to warm the earth and make way for all the new life. As the season begins anew, people begin to meander along the paths, instead of rushing for the nearest shelter to get out of the cold. In the spring, we start to see the frogs begin to climb on the stones to soak in the warmth that will give them the energy to begin the day. Soaking in all the wonder that is the new beginning known as spring, one can swallow all the painful thoughts, the hurt of a cold, hard, past. 

This new beginning, this returning of warmth and activity, it surrounds us like a warm meal. It is the meat and potatoes of our lives. It gives us the energy and strength to carry on through the good times and the bad. It brings us out of the dark and leads us to the light. 

The Gods, however, do not see this change like we do. The spring is about hard work and painful growth. The painful way that things must go in order to thrive. The daisy must push aside the stone to even have a glance at the sun. While the water bubbles from the ground, it is quickly swallowed back in, quicker due to the dry, thawing ground that aches for the moisture. The heat that is so desperately needed for life, reaches out in tendrils, teasing, not giving its full strength to the air or the ground. The corn stalks are made to push through weeds that grow quicker than the meat on their seeds. Weeds meander through the fields, choking out the crops that do not grow quickly enough. 

Spring is a time of happiness and renewal for the people of the world. But to the plants and animals of the world, it is a time of work. A time to take back and fight for the space to grow and flourish. This season may seem easy to us, but it is a time of war for the earth and its creatures.