When the Heat Breaks

& the thunder echoes through the night sky bringing with it tantrums of twisting rain droplets panging to & fro from one side of the roofs & blacktop, to the old metal rowboats laying upside down in someone's back yard, sending shudders through the carrying quick moments of relief for those suffering in the sweltering of an earth being baked but the relentless sun ushering in the necessity for our existence, while at the same time cooking us to a crisp & giving us cancer--- lucky we are to have the system of checks & balances which the universe provides at this point in time, because it will not always be & one day when Andromeda comes slamming into us at approximately 250,000 mph.