Trust The Rain To Come Again

Umbrella logic. Everyone has to believe in something.

Trust The Rain to Come Again

The rain came with loud crashes blown

Houses exploded on impact into droplets

Into the night itself becoming madness

Becoming lightning without the flash

Leaving splinters to float downstream fractured

Unrecognizable fragments detached from reality

Trees used to stand for something before the rain came

Deep rooted before men came to chop them down

To become houses caught up in a flood one drop at a time

Then into wooden pieces shattered into nothing

What is this world coming to if you can't trust the rain

If you can't trust your friends to build things that remain

Perhaps the next generation of rain will be gentler

It does not have to be this way say the sages

Trust the rain to come again one day in peace

But carry an umbrella just the same

Reviews

[Pwest]

Your poem gave me a sense how self centered each new generation grows, and how people can have a tendency to create disorder and destruction, chaos if you will to get what they want out of life. Even at the expense of others. It reminds me we are all wolves at one or some point in our lives. And it also gives me hope. Hope that some of us see this and aren't afraid to shout the voice of change.

[Earl Schumacker]

Hi Pwest, Thank you for your comments. This was simply me stepping outside the box. I do it frequently. I don't like boxes, like society, that place me inside. I had not thought about your perspective and slant on the subject but it seems to be on target and hits the mark. Thanks! Have a great week end. Earl

[Pwest]

Thanks Earl same to you, I don't think anyone likes boxes in the journey of life and placement in society. It creates a limit as to what we are allowed or not allowed to experience. Yet in some ways they can be good for us. But all in all I agree with you.

[Einstein Noodle]

thoughtful and i feel a sense of longing for some sanity to reign ;) i don't suppose it ever will, Earl ... sages are too few and the ways of the "world" to strong for most to ignore ... would that we could cast our fates to the winds eh!? ... but even the best of us have to have a plan ... we do travel, after all, from here to there eh!? i like your poem .. great title! strong metaphor sir! puts me on a better course this morning :)
E.

[Earl Schumacker]

Good morning E., Glad you enjoyed it. Sometimes I like to mix the complex with the simple to see what happens. It is raining like crazy today here in Florida. It woke me up because it was so loud. Sometimes nature influences me and my train of thought. I own a lot of umbrellas but I have never used one. I keep them around for those people who are so inclined to use them. Have a fun day. Earl

[Einstein Noodle]

i don't use them either Earl .. and i figure if one runs in the rain you only run into more droplets .. so i just walk ;) rainy here too, in Arkansas ...

[Earl Schumacker]

Good morning E. It rains in Arkansas?!

[Einstein Noodle]

:) it does ... but i live near the top of our "mountain" and we have rock and clay instead of soil so everything runs off pretty quick .. the sun shines here too :))))))))))))))))))))))))))