The
rain falls today
like
questions
mostly
untenable
unstoppable
continual
unanswered
reverberating
in
my thoughts
some
troubling
still
bubbling.
The
intensity
varies
with
the
moment
answers
lay
in dirty puddles
where
true
or
false
don’t
matter
they
float
together
–
reflecting
a rainbow
of
light
on
the surface
on
the edge
of
believing
knowing
and
understanding
to
be netted up together
washed
off
hung
up to dry
closely
observed
by
some of us
discussed
or
not
by
others.
Many
questions
and
answers alike
are
ignored.
A
great many
are
tossed back
into
the muddy puddle
or
pond
not
unlike
the
questions
about
the world
being
round,
or
about women
being
equal to men
before
they demanded equal rights
or
racial equality issues
argued
over years
as
blood spilled
into
rivers and ponds
similar
to this one.
They
each came down
as
drops of rain
in
a raging storm
of
questions
ideas
-
falling
on a pond
or
puddle
only
to be
scooped
up
laughed
at
thrown
back in
for
seventy five or
a
hundred years
to
gather dust
simmer
and smolder.
And
now perhaps
the
rain falls again –
as
black rain
this
time
and
the questions resonate
on
the pond
as
they are corporate
money
questions
effecting
all sentient beings.
Global
warming
on
our round
atmosphere
punctured planet,
hydraulic
fracturing
safe
clean drinking water
the
extinction of coral reefs –
and
the food, fish and economic health
they
provide world wide –
all
tied to the extinction of
the
human race.
Shall
we just toss these questions
back
into the puddle
for
a hundred years
or
provide the glib answers
the
over paid CEO chides
this
time perhaps -
it
may be too late.
Doug Claybourne – 08.07.12 – for Marea &
Signe
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