Five
Willows Literary Review: Poetry Submission
Cascade
She had nowhere to go,
nowhere to hide
Her pockets empty, painfully empty
Horribly devoid of sustenance,
of esteem, of a will to live
She scurried away,
trying to regain what she lost
when her family left her
without leaving anything behind
She cried to the heavens
for a drop of fresh water
She pleaded to the soil
to provide her a soft bed
She implored to the trees
to give her respite from the sweltering heat
All to no avail
did she appeal to the forces of nature
So she lived a life eerily deprived of hope
Until that day… when showers of diamonds
cascaded from the sky in relentless sheets,
saving her from the thirst that
wreaked havoc on her soul
She looked in delight at the thunder clouds
as shards of lightning illuminated her path,
the path to peace, to forgiveness
With unparalleled joy did her pale eyes glitter
as she lay back, deluged by the downpour
that cooled the spiritual pain she experienced
when she thought of her parched throat, the desiccated
land
her dry soul
They absorbed the water, the precious Adam’s ale
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