It is uncomplicated –

Rainfall –

A change in scenery

A balm for the dry sands

Even the darkness

Is refracted

Into ground level stars

Winking back at us

Through captured raindrops

It soothes something long buried

And its rhythms build into

A midnight lullaby

As the world becomes transformed

Beyond the veil of weather

Whispering to us –

Finally, finally –

Summer has gone – Caroline A. Slee