Sometimes when it rains on a summer night I lay out breathing, thinking lightly It seems as though I’m wandering between the winding willows Traipsing the seldom trodden paths of my mind
The tree trunk moves down into the ground, and I think I could follow it
I sink. . . If never I had felt icy surf and the waves like hands Grasping my clothes and tugging Each raindrop might be like a flood So large, it would sweep everything away and me with it
But here I sit unmoved- a stone I am cursed to weather slowly and become smooth Soon I will be small, and everything large Then the rain will carry me away.