Too many long scorching summers of unending heat <br />have passed and burned away hopes - no rain – defeat. <br />Fine, powdery and silky, red soils move in the hot winds <br />from original places to new locations, including dust bins. <br /> <br />The soft, silky sands drift and cause anguish and pain <br />where various seeds of winter's plantings show no gain. <br />Sunburned and weathered faces show pain of different kind, <br />pains of hunger and thirst, and of each a very worried mind. <br /> <br />Vultures circle clear, blue skies ready to attack weakened prey, <br />as the struggle of life continues to fight for life for another day. <br />Once tall, strong, trees, and native shrubs, plants and flowers <br />are now desperately clinging to life in their last days and hours. <br /> <br />Years, months, weeks, and days drag by as some clouds gather <br />and then as quickly fade away to leave living things in a lather. <br />Then one day a miracle does happen as one of God's clouds burst <br />as a dropp or two does very gradually show, maybe over the worst. <br /> <br />Suddenly with utter shock and disbelief, as almost loss of hope, <br />sparkling, liquid diamonds fall and rush from the sky, as if to elope. <br />Dancing diamonds appear now as if dripping silver from the trees, <br />as the softness of the welcomed rains fall - and again, all is at ease.<br /><br />Colleen Wright<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/diamonds-from-heaven/
