Seeking Beauty, Seeing Ugly

It's been a while since I took you on a walk with me.

Today everything seemed beautiful but full of ugly, like spring has still yet to hide the harsh inside.

Barbed wire in the hedgerow.

Thorns ready to hurt.

Up hill battle with no end in site.

Gates barring the future which is still hazy and cold.

There's the promise of a beautiful reflection but marred by a murky surface and a pipe ready to ooze more.

Is a land slip a lovely watering place for wildlife or the threat of total collapse?

Tunnel After tunnel of cold shade

Muddy puddles where the sun won't dry them out.

Still lingering winter harsh, hard and cold.

But the lambs tails shout the start of spring

and the sun will battle through and win.