The slow and steady pour
of falling rains
brings a consistency
to this place.
I am awed by its discipline
and flexibility.
“I choose to rain when I want to rain, and when I choose to rain, I will rain as long and as hard as I want.”
I admire its simple complexity.
Each falling droplet,
so sure of its individuality,
risen up from collective pools of living brethren,
fall to the earth in fated fashion.
Once the tumble is extinguished,
the droplet smashes into the earth with force and fury-
and in that force
and in that fury
its rugged and tenacious individual idiosyncrasies
are lost once more in the whole-
again combined with its fellow,
cascading and roving through drains, cracks, ebbs and flows,
only to be absorbed in a living body much greater than itself.
Then the expressionless cycle will continue over again, in its time, according to its will.
It rains when it rains; only then.
of falling rains
brings a consistency
to this place.
I am awed by its discipline
and flexibility.
“I choose to rain when I want to rain, and when I choose to rain, I will rain as long and as hard as I want.”
I admire its simple complexity.
Each falling droplet,
so sure of its individuality,
risen up from collective pools of living brethren,
fall to the earth in fated fashion.
Once the tumble is extinguished,
the droplet smashes into the earth with force and fury-
and in that force
and in that fury
its rugged and tenacious individual idiosyncrasies
are lost once more in the whole-
again combined with its fellow,
cascading and roving through drains, cracks, ebbs and flows,
only to be absorbed in a living body much greater than itself.
Then the expressionless cycle will continue over again, in its time, according to its will.
It rains when it rains; only then.
-
MR,
6/8/10
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