Reasons to Love Rain
Because it washes my car for free
excuses lateness
smudged mascara
and bad hair days
Because it stops play
and greens lawns
provides a swimming-bath
for sparrows
and shimmering lakes
for swans, egrets and moorhens
Because it makes flowers bloom
in the desert
Because it sparkles
and adorns gutters with icicles
Because walking in the rain
is still romantic
Because there are many
degrees of wetness
from damp to drowned rat
but only one sort of dry
Because it turns a field
of dust and stones
into maize
and makes the difference
between death and life
in Africa.
© Sarah Barr
2012
Sarah Barr 