Response to Serenity's Challenge

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Open Poetry #22

Response to Serenity's Challenge

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Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2002-09-09 12:57 PM

Answering Serenity's challenge:
"A drowning man is not troubled by rain."
Persian Proverb

a drowning man
is not troubled by rain
if drowning in tears
from a heart filled with pain

or if drowning in sorrow
with a bottle of booze
trying to forget
the paths he must choose

drowning in debt
takes away thoughts of gain
and hampers his mind
so he can’t see the rain

drowning in quicksand
leaves him helpless and fraught
it steals all the joys
and that for which he was taught

yet, drowning in flood
of a pitying soul
takes away any chance
of keeping him whole

so why should the rain
have an ounce of affect
for its influence, of course,
is too hard to detect

©September 9. 2002

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

Midnitesun