Merciful Rain (Part 1)

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The earth

cups its hands

And pours liquid-honey light

Into a puddle of sheer darkness

Milk blackened by ash

and sea salt,

That stings like static in

The crisp dewy air,

Grasping thin creamy light,

Piercing a black

that

is

not

black

But the darkest, wildest sea

And as it consumes cold rain,

This comforts the creatures

Who drift along the churns

Of soft sand and tangled coral,

Weathered down by the w i n d d d

That spirals through the ocean

Like a godly spider,

Hungry for the smooth chaos

And the power to

Take a step and pass the world by

As it turns and changes,

Tightens into frisky knots

And expands to graze the h e a v e n s

Where little children

With white wings and black talons

Play mortal for a penny.

They dance through

Rainy days

and rainy nights,

The clouds are their balloons

And thunder is their fire

To bury humans beneath the

Wet soil,

and mercy is their ammunition. 


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