Look out your window Onto the valley below, How the sun capped peaks Around you glow, With no reservation Does the sun's favor show,
What can I do when it rains? Gather it into a box of rain? The sun's shadow transpires to arch from the clouds, faintly, the raindrops themselves Yikes! Let it flow, let it flow As if a river were churning, Note: the earth that turns streams
You can do anything, My love, Who ought to yearn for the heavens, Throw away illusory shackles Throw away your box of rain, I love you so and it hurts to burn In the fellowly outlines of your pain,
Your box of rain, it splinters outward Like a rock in a pond, negative space had Throw away the pain! It's not yours And turn to face new rain Hour by hour, yours And with each drop you will grow.
Inspired by "Box of Rain", a song performed by the Grateful Dead. The original poem was written by Phil Lesh and Robert Hunter, and was dedicated to Lesh's dying father.