The Scent of Water

Was just dust so barren so bare No one bothered no one to care He was a man lost in his own mind No one remembered when he was kind The heat of summer so intense nothing grows Needs rain to fall to bring back the glow He needs reassurance that someone cares Not alone in the world, thinking everyone stares Along comes autumn with its showers of rain Guzzled up by the dust needing more again A lonely hand reaches out he grasps with his might. Someone to talk with to help put things right The winter snows filling thirst pockets to the top What have we here a lonely snow drop Found him a home, plenty of food in his tum Big smiles on his face, feels like a new man Whether nature or human when life seems at an end With a little help can start anew again. Penned 08/07/2014 **Have written this as alternative couplets, nature and human both needing the scent of the water to begin again.**