Soapbox Poet

Rain Clouds (a poem)

raining down from reigning clouds

comes tears from the earth that can

capsize what I’ve built. With buckets

and brain I beseech the storm to stay.

The thunder fills me up and empties

me back out time and time again.

I realize I am the storm.

I am the deep thunder that echoes

through canyons and the strikes

that light up dead trees. I water

the earth and take it all back day

and day again. A vicous cycle of

tunneling clouds that can sense

insanity; can sense the sane.

A humble realization, to coexist

with something so fluid.