Difficult Times
California Drought
Enough now of no rain,
Enough now of dry eyes of winter,
Day by day, green is fading,
Women returning with
Dry baskets of roses,
Like love during a war time,
A spring with no flowers,
A mother with milk-less breasts,
I take it all in,
I wait, I pray for;
The waterfall to fall again,
The fish in a pond
To swim again,
And,
The butterfly
To fly again,
I take it all in,
I wait, I pray
For the droplets
To return home.