Summer brings oppressive heat, sticky sweat
Then come the rains, reducing all to mucky, mushy mud
Pelting hot tin roofs in buckets, gushing out of the gutters
Dumping, darkening, dampening all, breaking branches
The rain pours down & down on me, dripping, dropping, sopping
I kneel in the wet, tall grass, tilt my head back, put my hands up, open my mouth for the water
Let it permeate, percolate, penetrate me, completely
And the tears from bleary eyes, just like the rain coming down from the skies
Rains flooding the plains, overflowing the drains, Piscean pains
I am dirtied and cleaned all at once, all at once
