Monday, December 17, 2012

Rain, Composed 3/30/10


The saddest sky of grey so sheds its tears:
It weeps for those who likewise fell in vain;
It mourns for those who succumb to their fears,
And those who pass in noble crimson rain.
“Look!,” it cries, “see on the window pane,
See how the raindrops fall, form, drip, and fade!
Likewise a lion sheds his noble mane,
And humbly falls, to where his father laid.
But man unknowingly tries to hold fast
And looks for fame and fortune which he holds.
He would have known that it was not to last,
If he had list' to what the rain had told.
And though no drop can know what path is right,
The best ones sparkle when they cross with light.

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