I didn’t know that we’d be inside for days on end while it rained, and snowed, and it felt like Spring itself would only tease us, but never actually come.

And the days would all bleed into eachother, and so would we.

I didn’t know just how desperately I would need this one thing:

Hope.

It’s a Hallmark-y sounding kind of word. At least, it was. To me.

But now hope is something else.

Something more. Something alive.

Something like these tucked-in tulips. Withdrawn and inward. But quietly getting ready to bloom.

Separate, yet together.