Summer Rain

Listen to the raging summer rain

Mercilessly battering the ground -

Drops bouncing like crickets all around.

What heights its descent has drained

Into the pools when it came unbound!

My head is made silent by the sound

And a sense of cleanliness will remain

After everything's been washed down

And the neighborhood streets have drowned.

Harder still it strikes the window pane -

'Tho a peculiar sun broke through a cloud.

So long as the raindrops continue to pound -

Listen to the raging summer rain!