Inundation

the rain plunks steadily

a heartbeat

it falls carelessly

ignorant to its own significance

the grass glows green

happily absorbing the

crying heartbeat until

thunder

shatters the clouds and

raindrops and everything that

could be into

shards, broken

water collapses upon

hopes and reality

pulling sparkling shards down

with it

inundation

the grass cannot

cry out as the

befallen water oppresses

it, a cacophonous storm drowns

the life-giving heartbeat

lightning strikes mercilessly up from

the ground, a defense mechanism of

electricity which

cannot harm the brokenness

of the open sky

and the water falls still,

a promise broken

a sky broken

and the once glowing grass

is broken too.

Wilting.