California Drought

Enough now of no rain,

Enough now of dry eyes of winter,

Day by day, green is fading,

Women returning with

Dry baskets of roses,

Like love during a war time,

A spring with no flowers,

A mother with milk-less breasts,

I take it all in,

I wait, I pray for;

The waterfall to fall again,

The fish in a pond

To swim again,

And,

The butterfly

To fly again,

I take it all in,

I wait, I pray

For the droplets

To return home.

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