“Contemplation”

 

I am distracted by the grey mizzle of rain,

fragments of fluids in motion

            in sincere rippling cadence

against my window.

 

A sweet ambrosial rain that remembers

me to innocence and

            wonder

            and a time my soul was dry and

frail.

 

I so fear being old and not

grown.  The dull thunder

squeezes more

rain, and I can see no reflection in the

            pane, yet my face is in every drop

            every smooth, silver drop.

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