After all this time, the rain has come again soybeans bursting in the pod, dry brown fields. The lake as low as it has ever been clouds pass, thin wisps, withholding all they wield.
We too have dried, mere husks, once plangent await cadences, intimacy's desires. A chair rests on a deck, first child's salient artifact of family life once resonant.
Not first love, but founded in maturity enough, perhaps, to defy time's ravages. Embarked with proclaimed mutual surety to weather all a life's uncertain passages.
But, for now, we tender loves rebuff and find the rain must prove to be enough.