Fall Fell ,Winter came, then....

Fall Fell written at the end of fall in 2012, I see that I already published that one.  however, at the end of that winter, before spring sprang, there was about 2 weeks after it was SUPPOSED to spring, and didn't!  Here is what that was like:

Leaf buds frozen on dead branches, yet ice and frost no longer imprison them.
Spring awaits in eerie silence, as if time itself has stopped.
Long gone is the slithering snow, snaking across the highway in the wind.
Yet these buds remain dormant just as they were in early winter, when a mistake by Mother Nature,
Made them emerge at the wrong time.
Will they fail?
Are they all dead after last summer's awful drought?
Branches black, all black, dead as the stillness in the middle of the night.
Where are you spring?  It's like time has stopped.
Yet poised on the brink of something wonderful about to happen.
Are you ever coming again?
There should at least be a hint of green, by now
Where are you?  will you never come again?