Dormancy is defined as a state of suspended growth and reduced metabolic activity that acts as an adaptive mechanism for survival, primarily studied in seeds and perennial plants. They stand frozen, unmoving.
The everlasting winter crystalizes your naivety and clots your veins, with the all-consuming latency hidden behind a chemically induced heartbeat, yet you keep moving deeper into the unchartered blizzard.
Blind faith in the ability of circumstances to change is the integral difference between people and plants.
Humans foolishly wake up in the thick winter and hope for the sun to warm that frost that has settled far beneath your skin.
You ache for the rays to trace you softly until the shards within you mend.
Plants, however, do not trust blindly, but rather wait until they’ve experienced enough heat to trust that spring is real.
What a foolish species we are, expecting warmth from frost and comfort from stone.
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 10:18 AM UTC
Dormancy is defined as a state of suspended growth and reduced metabolic activity that acts as an adaptive mechanism for survival, primarily studied in seeds and perennial plants. They stand frozen, unmoving.
The everlasting winter crystalizes your naivety and clots your veins, with the all-consuming latency hidden behind a chemically induced heartbeat, yet you keep moving deeper into the unchartered blizzard.
Blind faith in the ability of circumstances to change is the integral difference between people and plants.
Humans foolishly wake up in the thick winter and hope for the sun to warm that frost that has settled far beneath your skin.
You ache for the rays to trace you softly until the shards within you mend.
Plants, however, do not trust blindly, but rather wait until they’ve experienced enough heat to trust that spring is real.
What a foolish species we are, expecting warmth from frost and comfort from stone.
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