Today the sun was shining,

Green grass, blue sky, brown earth,

A breeze like simple breathing

Life that bursts its seams,

 erupts in yellow dandelion and red robin breast

and red cardinal hopping.

Two rabbits frolic on the lawn

Beige balls of fur tipped with white.

Smell of ground and blooming trees

Invade my nose.

A cloud appears:

My lungs stop moving,

The air drops off

And falls to cold;

Everything pauses

To look over its shoulder;

A sudden wind

Bends the trees,

Dark clouds infest the blue

And shadows loom

Driving all movers into hiding

Grinding  colour into the ground.

A heavy rain spurts suddenly from the sky

And blackness descends like law

Upon our heads all bowing;

The voice of thunder rumbles

A flash of light soon follows

Just black and white

Is all we see,

Asphalt and cement

The frozen processed stuff

Of living beings.

Who resist this driving Will toward absolutes

And  hide to wait the passing of the storm:

The rain dribbles into nothing

A blade of grass flattened by the wind

Slowly straightens

And stretches up to reach

The single ray of light.