Sitting on porches

 

Since Friday while the sky

 

Tilts like a watery glass

 

We wait for downpours

 

A drenching joy

 

A carnival sky

 

But what I don't say

 

What I can't say

 

Is that with this joy

 

Comes a mourning

 

Something left behind

 

Blue lined, teary

 

Mingled

 

I move on

 

All things will change

 

We wait for the rain

 

And the promise remains

 

Live life fully

 

Peeking through fingers

 

Slung in our hammocks

 

Cocooned

 

Skimming the water

 

Trapezed above time

 

We glide like slingshot angels

 

Belly up and

 

Floating we see

 

The promise in the sky

 

Up to Orion's ribs

 

We climb this tree

 

And listen

 

For our pulse

 

All things will change

 

We wait for the rain

 

And the promise remains

 

I flung loosely

 

Into that world

 

I stayed heavily

 

I'll be a Jacaranda Tree

 

In Indiana

 

I say

 

Greenhoused and sung to

 

I pray light will

 

Leak from out pockets

 

We'll be drenched, overcome

 

At night the fireflies

 

Streamers at our sides

 

Silent flaming arcs of hope

 

All things will change

 

We wait for the rain

 

And the promise remains