RAIN
The rain batters my roof
It is relentless
Pushing ever downward
Gravitational
Returning to the sea
The lowest point
Washing the land clean
No matter what lays in its path
Pushing
Undermining
Upending
Making its own way
Despite our best efforts
To control it
The rain seemingly knows
No master
Drop by drop
Bucket by bucket
The rain comes DOWN
And wave by wave
It touches our lives
A sinkhole here
A traffic jam there
Flooding
Mudslides
A road washed out
Nineteen feet of snow
I five closed
A leaky roof
Flash flood warnings
Tornado alerts
What a catastrophe
The rain distracts us from
The horrors of the Asian
Tsunami which took the lives of over
150,000 people many of whom were
Merely eking out a living
Fishing or
Serving the tourists
Who flocked to the
Coastal paradises along the
Bay of Bengal
Tonight
The rain batters my roof
But it is a temporary inconvenience
Insignificant compared to the tears
Shed by millions of weeping eyes
Scattered across the world
RD Armstrong
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This page created 1/10/05