Hope?

What is this I sense,
quivering,
a bud shyly
shaking out 
through the snow ...

Is this
a crack,
a relief,
an temporary easing
in unrelenting
pressure?

Could this be
what they call ...
hope? 

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2013 I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit, of course :)

and, by the way, it wasn't :)