The People Behind My Eyes

“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free todelight in whatever sunlight remains to them?”

Rose Kennedy

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The Rains
December 28th, 2005

You pray and dance your rituals
Created a god to whom you offer sacrifices
In exchange for a promise
That the rain will fall.
For the harvest must be full
And the tide must pull just right.

I could bring in the breeze with a few clouds to break the suns sting
Or shower upon a land fire and cut off its hunger for power.
When dry grass gulps from drops that made your windowsills ping
I hear no sigh of relief
Why did you wait so long?
Why didn’t you save the trees and
Why did you let destruction take so many?

How cramped are the clouds with the tumultuous horde of
Resentment and distain that churns into a spring storm
And brings the driving rain.
The roar and lightening gives you a glimpse of what I fully perceive.
Release upon your land is the only way to maintain my sanity.

I’m bound in so many separate places
Across a sky that does not end.
Frightened by fierce rage, my courage is running thin.
The eye of the storm is here
I can’t hold this in.

It is clear I’ll do too little or too much
And some how mess it up.
Heaven cannot hold me, and mere men cannot prevent
The reclaiming of my sanity when I let go and the rains begin.

Ariel
of Morton’s Pride

December 28th, 2005

Walk with my feet Unbound (poem)