Spring Will Always Come

This is my first post here on the Writers' Cafe, and is also my first and only published work. It was published in an anthology of writings from my high school's Creative Writing classes.

A dismal vapor hangs low,

Descending upon me.

I choke on the wintry toxins

That teem in my lungs.

Poisonous snowflakes

Swirl through the frigid atmosphere.

They scald my fragile state,

But they are omnipresent

In this demented reality.

I've plummeted below zero,

Dug my way beneath the ground.

I tumble down this tunnel of despair.

Hibernation is not key,

But it is more ideal to me

Here in this frozen prison of agony.

Just when it appears

Winter is here to stay,

Radiant rays of fiery sun

Streak through the overcast skies.

Warm April showers thaw

The ice that blankets my heart,

And in its place,

A single flower blooms.

Trials and tribulations

May overcome my path,

But all I have to remember

Is spring will come again.