Trust the Rain To Come Again

The rain came with loud crashes blown Houses exploded on impact into droplets Into the night itself becoming madness Becoming lightning without the flash Leaving splinters to float downstream fractured Unrecognizable fragments detached from reality Trees used to stand for something before the rain came Deep rooted before men came to chop them down To become houses caught up in a flood one drop at a time Then into wooden pieces shattered into nothing What is this world coming to if you can't trust the rain If you can't trust your friends to build things that remain Perhaps the next generation of rain will be gentler It does not have to be this way say the sages Trust the rain to come again one day in peace But carry an umbrella just the same