Challenge of Weather
First the sky will grow violent sudden clouds
and rain for so many days on end,
the ground swells and air becomes sodden tissue
and birds will not leave their shelter
or fly in the storm;
small animals seek higher ground
and wait for the rain to cease.
Streams will shudder to rivers without a fixed course
and cause the rivers to outrun their banks;
oceans pounding the shores will change
the continent's shape forever.
Trees and the land must rock
in the wind bending low
letting their stiffness relax,
losing a leaf or a stone;
some early petals must fall and be missed
by the inventory of summer bees.
And when all this torrent of Spring
has come and gone the clouds will recede
and birds once more will be flying and petals
better seen than before. When the trees
have outlived the storm and surviving
becomes the challenge of weather,
I will think of you then
for lovers are better survivors.
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