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.