HARD RAIN…

Pounding on my roof,

Making sleep only easy for Ruf,

He can sleep thru anything,

Except thunder & lightening,

His fear there, not mine,

Consoled he gets, by Dad,

Lays into my lap,

Jumps at ever sound…

Weather front moving in,

Time to go back to winter,

Colder temps, heater use required,

Not for the past two weeks though,

Been spring-time for that time,

Every winter we get a bit of a thaw,

Makes dealing with the cold a bit easier,

For the next month or so, before it goes, altogether…

A day for the ducks they say,

Rain and wind and cooler degrees,

Rufuz won’t go out for a walk,

Till the rain stops, or he can’t hold it back,

Me I am up early, 6 am again,

Sleep comes fitfully, when it does,

Figure the pounding rain has to do with that,

Such a very hard rain on my roof,

           Hard Rain…

                    © ed – 3/6/04