Thursday 13 May 2010

rain


rain, don't we know and experience the rain

in so many extraordinarily different ways

did we not as children run and go paddling

in those browny gravy puddles, play splash

and without any compunction to correct ourselves

leap into the rain, then seemingly older and wiser

did we not hesitate, even avoid the rain, cold miserable

water, dirty, the polluted, toxic, poisonous pond

the lake upon which once our paper boats

sailed to distant shores, while we in rubber boots

steered them to their final course, toward old age.

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