When the Rain Comes

When the rain comes, first lightly falling,

and as a wave of wet fingers,

when the air becomes grey with moisture  and turns to mist,

when the rain comes and people can breathe more easily,

when the rain comes in the first few days of Spring,

take time to feel the renewal of the natural world within you,

the joy of growth from the time of Winter’s dormant blessings

we all can learn from the seasons,

Winter reminds us to be slow and go inward,

Spring, to celebrate the power of the regeneration of everything,

Summer the vitality of life and Autumn to peel away the old,

then there is the fifth season,

the one of the heart where all the seasons dwell

and offers our life

the gift

of memory and change,

the inner season of the heart is our lense upon the world

and connects to the cycles of time and nature.

You are a cygil of time and nature,

an offering of the seasons

to crucible of  nature’s essence

that lives in the heart of humankind