The long rain’s finally stopped for a while.
It needed to stop. Fertile earth filled up.
We hope it continues to come and go. Smile
so it will. Pray so it will. Raise your cup
so it will. We’re no good without its fall
and rise and fall and rise…we made mostly
of water. Think of your parched tongue…your call
to the sky for water…the drought…your plea
for water…Think of your soaked body…earth’s
flood…your prayer for rain to end…Think of how
powerless we are over water…birth
and death…think of vital balance…think now
of rivers…of ocean, moon and constant flow
of water...think what it knows that we don’t know…
Roger Armbrust
September 2, 2020
