Evening Rainsong
Alone again
yet evening rain falls
cooling fresh breeze voices
anxious for everything,
angry about nothing.
Nothing to do about rain falling
as sure as gravity
of dripping issues
landing in my lap,
splattering naked children's sleepy heads
and innocent soft shoulders.
Into each life...
Yes,
yet eventide rains inside voices
wet down dwindling life
of tiring consciousness.
If I could not read or write or speak
who would I sing with in new found leisure?
Scattered lyrical thoughts
of painful rain
for evening's loss of light,
and dawn's dew drop evaporations
raising praise for might
of rain rising up yet again
to grace some other's night.
We each sing with rain dying alone,
a humanic nature feeling trapped
alien emigrant returning home
to Earth where all creations fail and fall
to rise again singing through new voices
and hues,
spectral rhythmic
dances of songs and cries
each our lived together owned,
rising up new throated sounds
disintegrated symphonies
of song sung out
toward tomorrow's rain clouds
capturing moist radiant waves,
wet sounds of song
well-lived yet bound.
I hear too complex songs for living,
polyphonic evening rains
falling down alone
to rise again belonging songs
evaporating praise,
leaking radiance
gathering together.
Into and through each flowing melody
of rebaptising life
dirged this night alone
yet heard as well-sung rain forever.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2017
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