Rainy Day Thoughts
It is raining all around.
It really makes a pretty sound.
It hasn’t rained in a long time.
3 years of drought isn’t kind.
Things have gotten pretty dry.
Forrest fires have gone awry.
I decided to take a walk.
A walk in the rain. Time for thought.
There must be something we can do.
As a human race to defeat the flu.
Ebola is spreading by leaps and bounds.
No solution seems to be found.
Crime and violence is on the raise.
Financial institutions surmise
that a financial crash may happen.
What will that do to our faction?
Things will go to hell in a hand basket.
Robbery will become a daily habit.
Enough about depressing thoughts.
I look at the present I had bought.
A surprise for my wife’s soon birthday.
She celebrates it more than Earth Day.
We have a lot of happy things planned.
Yes, troubling things are at hand.
But, with the ones we love near,
one thing stands out very clear.
Praise the Lord for the rain for the parched land.
And praise the Lord for the loved ones at hand.
They can make a depressing day happy.
I love it when my kids call me Pappy.
———————————————–R. W. Johnson—–(2014)