Rains

You poured down upon 
The thirsty Earth
Relinquishing the heaven above
To meet an old friend

Since times immemorial
That the land and the sky 
Have attempted to meet 
At a far off horizon

You have looked down
On the Earthly existence
With an envious soul and 
A plight to dissolve in its magnitude

A wayfarer with a strange 
Jauntiness about you
Looking down from the 
Dark clouds heaping upon themselves

You poured down upon 
The thirsty Earth
With a buoyance of sprite
Spreading delight
And mirth

The Earth smiled back
Knew you would arrive 
To wash away the acridity
Into a world sublime