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frostbitten flowers

Jazirrah Davis-Carter, april 2025

Wet ground and branches litter the streets, caused by the melting snow and the waking trees. 
The fading cold of winter immortalizes itself in the wind that blows across the city. 
To bring about the new life of the year with the washing away of the old. 
To bring about growth after the cleanse.

Flowers bloom high from their stagnant roots.
Their tips drenched in the early morning dew and frozen by the wind–
One piece of evidence of time moving forward.
Evidence of the waking year.

People are showered in the weather's tears as its happiness is turned to ash.
Its peace being an ever-changing force outside of their control.
While the beautiful nature that blooms from their sadness stays alive.
It’s once perfect world is dead and it now has to work.

Working long hours to sustain nature’s beauty is a grueling task.
A task that hurts their perfect world in which they get to relax in the quiet of the winter nights.
Its tears are ever streaming for the spring.
Frostbitten flowers soaking it all in.

Jazirrah Davis-Carter

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