Rain, Rain, Stay Awhile

Rain, rain, come to play

Fall awhile and stay

Your drip, drip, drip

Makes my thoughts slip

Through the grassy mud

And chewed like a cud

Your sudden thunders bring

My attention to a ring

It snaps my heavy head

Out of its windy bed

Melting its crown open

And calming hungry lion’s den

My windowpanes snap

With each droplet’s pat

Filling a sea in the air

Of which I throw all care

Down and up and out

And through the roundabout

Shooting out somewhere

I have no idea where

My soul relaxes in the rain

It no longer feels pain

Seeing itself for itself

There’s finally room for myself

So rain, rain, stay awhile

Make my grin smile

Turn my crown up

Lift my highest cup

So my hammock might spread

And my body find its bed

The Pendulum

The pendulum swings back
All the way back
Suddenly opposite is true
And clouds change hue

The storm crashes in
It’s felt once again
The hard, cold rain will fall
Left outside the wall

The torque of the tether line
The cloud left behind
The sprinkling gathers
The resistance shatters

Running to catch the sun
Eventually bears none
This drenching will be fresh
No help from mere mesh

Umbrellas are for the weak
The Earth inherited by the meek
Falling to my laborious knees
I must run again, please