such is life...

On the clothesline in the garden one morning,
when the earliest riser got up from bed still yawning,
there formed a genius of Creation,
that would have filled the dullest mind with elation.

The ground lay below, it lay on top,
On top of the clothesline – a magnificent rain drop.

Slowly it grew in size, and in stature too it seemed,
All the colors of the rainbow inside it gleamed,
Till at the height of its importance the little monarch claimed with glee,
“Bow to me Creation; for I have trapped the Sun inside me.”

And for one, wondrous moment its claim held true,
For a more radiantly beautiful masterpiece nature never knew!

But the Sun only shone brighter than ever,
And the morning breeze blew, causing the clothesline to shiver.
The little drop, showing the first signs of fear,
Clung on with all its might to life held dear.

Till succumbing to the inevitability of Life, the proud child fell forth,
And was enfolded in the warm embrace of its Mother Earth.