A good rain fell, muddied waters, <br />Pooled in my head, fixed and assimilated <br />Discord with earth and breath <br />Vanished, estranged by night, <br />Teased expectation from the ether, <br />Will' the wisp as stroke and kiss <br />Seduction roots in minds malignant <br />Deny the axiom of blinding day <br />Succumb unto the strangers' charm <br />Imagined success is ecstasy's betrayal <br />Bitter juice from exotic climes <br />Lured by glowing reviews, but fickle calm, <br />Broken fruit tasted and rejected <br />Brown skin sloughed onto indifferent ground <br />Sullen as lost beauty's poison <br />Beyond the reach of starved limbs, numb, <br />Quenched to impoverished core <br />On the brink of extinction <br />Without resource in store or future <br />Alone dreading preservation, ambivalent to <br />Meagre succour prolonged privation <br />Curse the pale new sky, each mourn, <br />Down pour drown and flush it all <br />Scour horizons, cleanse the struggle skin <br />Dim probation of wretched halfway frame <br />Troubled bones in an unmarked delta flee, <br />Ebbs the tide, flows a river, beats the sea.<br /><br />Danny Draper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-good-rain-fell/
