Adrift On Raindrops Poem by Ofero Basbas

each one a drop that sings a different note
each one a drop that drops a different place
each one a drop that shares a different name.

each one a drop in a different time
each one a drop that drops another drop
each one a drop that’s out of line.

a drip, adrift, a pitter-patter that is
lost in the drops of millions of raindrops
a drop’s adrift in a different time.

one, two, three-fold of three-fourths note;
one singing, one marching, one stopped in mid-air.
can you sense it? the song in your ear

is not the same. these are the echoes you hear
in the silence between raindrops.
in the silence between drifting drops.

each one a drop in a time that is not here
each one an echo in a place not now
each one a drop that drifts off in your ear

to a place where once there was nothing
but the sound of echoes of raindrops.
when you hear them, tell me, what they sing.