and let the rain fall from the sky

run down my face to hide my tears

these so concentrate with sorrow

they drop to the ground as glistening gems

each one shot through with silken filaments

fissures of experienced compassion

that fractured open my heart’s facade

these rise around me a crystalline mountain

shining to return light wherever it be found

and the flowing streams around this calm

radiance dancing from surface to surface

even the weighted lowering clouds gain relief

their burden thereby transformed