Spring

Attention !
underground uprising
resulting in EXPLOSIONS
- of yellow
followed by pinks and blues
resulting in widespread smiles
everyone has a spring in their step
horticulturists professional and amateur
dig out their tools put on their boots
start sowing, farmers are tilling and  seeding,
bees are buzzing as lambs skip
in the fresh green fields.
Yes spring makes people hopeful,
happy – unless,
perhaps you are one of the thousands,
no millions who are living in warzones
deafened by daily detonations:
digging through rubble
digging graves
under dusty skies
adrift in a wasteland
watered by tears
where no one smiles.