What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the rain? <br />But he has bought grief's lottery, bought even the rain. <br /> <br />"our glosses / wanting in this world" "Can you remember?" <br />Anyone! "when we thought / the poets taught" even the rain? <br /> <br />After we died--That was it!--God left us in the dark. <br />And as we forgot the dark, we forgot even the rain. <br /> <br />Drought was over. Where was I? Drinks were on the house. <br />For mixers, my love, you'd poured--what?--even the rain. <br /> <br />Of this pear-shaped orange's perfumed twist, I will say: <br />Extract Vermouth from the bergamot, even the rain. <br /> <br />How did the Enemy love you--with earth? air? and fire? <br />He held just one thing back till he got even: the rain. <br /> <br />This is God's site for a new house of executions? <br />You swear by the Bible, Despot, even the rain? <br /> <br />After the bones--those flowers--this was found in the urn: <br />The lost river, ashes from the ghat, even the rain. <br /> <br />What was I to prophesy if not the end of the world? <br />A salt pillar for the lonely lot, even the rain.<br /><br />Agha Shahid Ali<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/even-the-rain/
