The Healing Waters
It’s raining
The April showers
Waited til May
To sprinkle, to pour
Down on us
And the plants
And the growing food
I am full of joy
And have simultaneous
Trepidation of
What is to come
My edges, my sadness
Surface at this time
This Springtime
I cannot explain it
I hold joy and melancholy
Together now
Intentionally I get wet
I know I am
Being cleansed
By the waters
Of the clouds
And the sky
And the ocean
From whence they came
“God is in the rain.” *
The cleansing is
The purging
The Healing
Ancestors whisper,
Allow that mess
To be rinsed away
By the Healing Waters
* From “V for Vendetta” (2005)