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Why does the cloud rain?

February 13, 2001
The Iranian

 

Why does the cloud rain?

 

Possibility one:

 

It is what the cloud does

It cannot help itself

Water amasses

And the cloud's memory

Is gorged with the urge to flow

The Earth

Must not assume itself culprit

For the generous showers

 

Why does the cloud rain?

 

Possibility two:

 

It is the verdant Earth

Lush with thirst

Beneath

That summons the wind

To murmur its seductive invitation

To the cloud

Otherwise, the cloud

Being aloft

Would have little to do

with what is low

 

Why does the cloud rain?

 

Possibility three:

 

The cloud lives for the Earth

It spends every moment

Contemplating water

To appease the Earth

 

But the cloud

is

after all

A cloud

And by nature

.................Capricious

 

At times lean

At times withholding of its fluid affection

And always on the move

 

But the Earth

Being the grounded lover

Is dormant with greater longings

For endless waters.

 

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