Beyond the Rain

january rain
drumming on the window
not relentless but purposeful
surely for some reason, there a sweet sugar sky
woven by the followers searching for water
in the ripples of golden sand
they throw it up into the air
and chant
chant
incomprehensible words
dying out for noone to hear
but what if it matters?
children are inside
the snow isn\'t delivered as promised in the nine o\'clock news
spectacles from faraway are discussed
but the snow just isn\'t coming
regardless of how frantically we crave
the news is formal and void
like parcels in the christmas stores
always empty ha ha ha ha!
a place is waiting for everyone
a bit of soil
or a beach fringed by orange trees and olive groves
or the gritty back of a camel ready to go
what
find out
my shirt sleeves flatter in the wind
cool oh so cool
reading my skin and finding an unresolved matter
of something regarding the soul
but it\'s all small print
incomprehensible
there\'s the lonely pine tree
its needles are scarce
found only by the few
counted in the soothing shade of a palm tree
the question repeats itself in the news
why isn\'t there any snow and what about the greenhouse effect,
will it strike again this winter or will the family so and so fly like yellow canaries
to southern coastal resort and...?
and there\'s so much being discussed any sensible person looses track
and retreats to pleasure seeking
snow was just sighted in Russia and it may be on its way
santa claus is Russian ho ho ho!!
but take the dolls
they smile or look sad or stupid whatever goes on around them
we even find them in bombed out houses in war zones and nuclear disaster areas
and they look the same a bit uncombed but the same
why is that? noone can hardly tell
wake up on a blanket and the hair is full of sand and freshness
last nights prayers were spoken quickly and we wake up and carry on
not waiting for a reply because we have to hurry to find water the camels are thirsty
and then make a fire and cook
we are so busy and God understands all that not having time to pray properly
so smoothly we depart from the camp at dawn
some of us still sleeping on the camelbacks
but our entity alert and full of attention
the rifts ahead could be gaping looking impossible to transverse
but what lies ahead
we cannot tell but we trust The Almighty One
and find peace
soon
soon
we will be there