THE RAIN MUST COME

Sushama Karnik originally shared:

 

THE RAIN MUST COME
The rain must come and complete the round
of falling and filling in the broken ring ,
the missing link that causes the miracle,
that restores order, the symbols the earth had given to man,
the images the rain had promised the sea,
and the script that needs to be read again
for the child who would watch, unable to speak,
of the miracle the sound would bring back,  life,
the miracle of the sound of the impossible,
the sound of the simple brotherhood that unites the dreams which this planet was given to nurture for the child.
The child knows nothing of the hatred that kills ,
nothing of the weapons that are marketed
in the place of the old discarded dreams.
He knows only the perverted magician
who barters on the counter, to whisk away the dreams as rusted lamps
and replaces them with weapons of trauma
and installs a monster that redefines hunger, power and war and peace
The rain must come and cover the child
standing beneath this bleak sky
that has forgotten the memory of the rain