Without Drought There Is No Pleasure In Rainfall

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Open Poetry #24

Without Drought There Is No Pleasure In Rainfall

the_jazzician
Junior Member

since 2003-01-03

Posts 30

0 posted 2003-01-03 02:03 PM

My eyes ,
they sting as if an insect has flown into them,
become lost and try to dig its way out,
they ache.
but there is no insect ,
instead only emotions,
bound to my soul, like a dog tied to a tree,
wanting to get away, but knowing that if it escapes
its master will be upset.

Relentlessly tugged at, the rope soon gives way,
leaving the dog free
to run to the other end of the barren field
to drink its water ;
Like an ever-exercised muscle the emotions grow stronger ,
tugging ,
and eventually
my rope breaks too,
and just for a while I am no longer a dog-
but a puppy
and instead of fur, covered in a coat of temporary innocence as it runs to collect its water,

panting.

But reaching the bowl,
it is dry,
there was never any water .
the desert that is my soul is dry,
there has been rain but it fell far from me.

And so,
I wait at the bowl,
my escape from the mental shackles of restraint was done in vain,
for it is hot and my thirst remains unquenched.

Seeing the liberated dog.
the master is initially angered but then moved by my plight.
The puppy is no longer tied up,
I am left free to roam the fields,
desperately awaiting rainfall
to be sent from above,
to fill my bowl. . .

It will rain some day over me,
and where it does the desert will become an ocean,
with sweet water.
Until then the salty tears I cry will crystalise on my cheek,
waiting for her to gently wipe them away,
and when she does,

I will no longer be thirsty.

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

1 posted 2003-01-05 02:53 AM

jazzican,
good analogy and well written.
Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

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