The Secret of Rain

The sky sheds its weight in cold slivers

Which plopped on the wet pavement​​ I was sat on.

Their journey is long, though I'll never know the distance...

They scatter before I can ask them.

These ancient waters, from the primordial seas

Hold ancient secrets of the dawn of the world.

Its surface they knew and know better than me

In oceans they've run, in storms they've swirled.

They will never tell, but I'll always want them

To spill those mysteries as they run and lie,

But their patience transcends generations.

A hundred-billion people did they deny.