We so needed the rain.
We prayed for it.
I sat on the porch and watched it
hit the parched earth.
The grass had long ago turned dormant,
brown and dead
like the crops
like us
we prayed for the rain
for the farmer
and when it finally came
the trees looked happy
the droplets disappeared
and the ground was still dry
it takes a day for the water to finally run
in streams down the gulleys
becoming brown with the earth.
I sat with my cat
and noticed the rain this time
It is because we so needed the rain
that we played in it
that we felt as if
it had never rained before.
