Men Like Rain Poem by Joshua Adewumi

Men Like Rain

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Men like rain:
born in the sky
from the belly of mortal clouds,
they fall with unknown fortunes
into the sea or the border-less ocean,
into still-waters or in marsh that irritates.

Like snakes they go
meandering over mountains:
with no footpath.
Or down sand-dunes
with history to write:
Making high flood walls,
Or shallow irrigation canals.

Whatever it may:
to be desired or to be rued,
unto the land they all fall,
running, wetting and then sinking
Down to the core
shut in the other world.

Till the hour they will be summoned
by the grand rain maker.
When the sun will break the bars of coma,
and the ocean will be sick to the last.
Leaving the rest of it all,
to the grand rainmaker.

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