Insure Every Jewel

Swiftly she started the flashing rain and called to the kids to enjoy the pain The melt off the trees in the summer’s breeze as the hail tore the clouds and began to freeze The asphalt clinging to heated steam and car tires hurling toward their headlight’s beam A hush from the crickets all sparkling wet as the storm takes the lid off the sun’s sunset She rolled the bikes down the gravel path and clinked on the bell as she, head up, laughed and rusted the wheels as they road down the road two girls fresh with giggles and goggles in tow. The splashes decided to drown out the grass who wept in the rain that they were growing too fast as songs to be sung would be planted and last as their roots tug the earth toward the perilous past. The lightning danced up the clouds The moon hid her face in her shroud The bicycles raced with the wind in their faces as the thunder shook the ground all around. Their skin blest with drops from the rain all worries washed slick down the drain A passionate brood so internally good on a trip down their memory lane.