Why Water And Fire Are Not Friends Poem by Tony Adah

Once the rain saw smoke coming out
Of a straw shade
He came down to see
If clouds live below too
He couldn't enter the shade direct
As he came down
So he looked for an inclined plane
And was already visiting fire
Ah ye! fire exclaimed inviting
Their intermediary, the earth who blocked the rain
I have come for good
And to make you my friend, the rain said
Yes, friendship acknowledged
But I make no friend without my first friend
And who is that
If I may know? asked the rain
No person other than the earth, said the fire
I want us only two always, the rain muttered
And that is elusive to hold, the fire retorted
The wind came in blew the fire
Into a great inferno and mopped the rain
Away into the sky
The rain got vexed and went with the wind's push
And promised that he'll fight the rain
Anytime opportunity avail
This is why water always quenches fire!