For a Rainy Day

I am just an element,

I was in my elements.

I know nothing of joy and anger, 

Nor indeed of safety and danger.

I fall from heavens without bias

Equally on the evil and pious

And on the ground when I fall

I seek new paths ignoring all.

Make way for me

Room to flow to the sea

If you place obstructions

I flow around constructions

Don't the poets admire?

My overcoming situations dire?

Oh you thought I had given up?

And abandoned you to a dry rut?

I thought you will enjoy

And not call me killjoy

I poured hard to make up

But you had no deep cup

To unite with my mother I seek

Flowing through concrete streets

To sink in her arms, is all I desire

But she is lost amidst muck and mire

I go away to distant lands

Will you ever want me back?

I am but one of the elements

Sometimes ruthless, sometimes clement.