Water

I watched the raindrops 

one by one they fell

they filled an empty hole

till it became a well

 

every word of yours is dew

like this rain I seek

the hole here large and empty

for a cistern of waters keep

 

Within I hold these waters

as a gift for you

the life within a garden

cannot without them do

 

The moisture collects in clouds and wind

their circuits round the earth each day

their routes can now be firmly mapped

its requirements to life portray 

 

The bounties hidden in a desert

you won't ever see in bloom

until the rain its torrents fall

saturates the seeds entombed

 

Your words are livings waters

they must fall upon the seed

they cannot germinate or grow

they require this moistures deed

 

Mankind's become a desert place

where scorpions and snakes do dwell

life here is with the cold blooded

from the rainforest they have fell

 

Comprehensive examples  have been left

in all nature and histories show

a better teacher than science books

if we observe what's here to know

 

The fabric of all of life

holds me like a wadi tell

like an archeologist

who digs the sands and dell

 

These nations want gold and silver

but true riches they despise

in the end pursuits of vanity

will damn those who think they're wise

 

Once again you refreshed my mind

when I thought my well be dry

the waters here clean and clear

not bottled with a lie

 

 

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