Beyond The Rain

Where have all the raindrops gone

Spilling from on high?

Which once would fall about my head

But now my head is dry.

Where have all the snowflakes gone

Ambling down from space?

Shivering in the winter wild

And melting on my face.

Where have all the rivers gone

Dashing to and fro?

They once would splash across the land

As seaward they would go.

Where have all the oceans gone

To crash against the shore?

All that's left is salted sand

Upon a seabed floor.

Where have all the rainbows gone?

They lighted up the days.

They once would bow and bend and reach

So far, the eye could gaze.

Where have all the sundrops gone

To energise the rain?

Absent now, without a trace,

And never seen again.

And where have all my brothers gone?

Each walked the earth with me;

O'er moor and mountain, here and there,

From clifftop to the sea.

And where have all my sisters gone,

And all the loves I've known?

Disappeared, just like the rain,

So, now I'm left alone.

                     ASJ