Rain Dance

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. - Thoreau

earth is burning

prayers scorched

faith singed

a feast of evil binged

souls on fire

situation dire

everyone and everything thirsty, parched with emptiness and pain

pouring out gasoline to erase a stain

tell me

where is humility lain

cry me a river

weep me a stream

lengthen my scars and deepen my dream

love me today

hate me tomorrow

use your forked tongue and what's left of your heart to beg or borrow

erase the sorrow

walk straight with a crooked cane

forsake yesterday's disdain

tell me

where do lies live and deceptions feign

sun is black

moon is red

the sea of eternity is unwalkable and dead

angels bowling

fishermen trolling

thunder flashing

highways crashing

clouds gather

choices would but rather

drops and drums pop

don't look back else the choreography will stop

let it commence

twirl it to begin

waltzing to what is right and forsaking sin

nothing to lose

nothing to gain

tell me

tell me

where went the rain

Author's Note

"As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside of time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Fran Marie]

this is heavy with gentle raindrops
of poetic verse; intense emotions
within the cascading fall of lines
the rhyme is awesome without
being forced..

sun is black
moon is red
the sea of eternity is unwalkable and dead

[Pete]

thanks for the share fran. stay cool ... :)