REF-RAIN

as silence drops like rain on river
helpless lives sail by, wild-wailing
their woes-- the heart alone beats in a
universe of stillness; have you heard the
moon laugh on a cloudy night, secretly,
at the vast, terrible, scattered knowledge of man
presuming cosmic insight--
when all reason writhes in rhyme
and healing often comes
in a single drop of rain.

~ Shreekumar Varma ~