The clouds today
stopped me in my tracks
walking up the farm hill

a heavy one drifted casually eastward
Big enough to block the sun

A little wispy one
- or was it two, entwined?
danced north, below the first

as I watched, it dissolved
before my eyes
the cloud going back to not-cloud
humidity dropping just below that threshold
into seeming nothingness that holds so much potential

And I thought of you
of us dissolving slowly
into something no one can see

hot tears streamed silent on my cheeks
but with no fight
I let them evaporate
back up to the clouds
letting the tears go

The sun streamed through
in three bold, distinct rays
like a child's work in crayon

What a gift.

That cloud erupted into thunder
from where? I wondered
It was all peace before
but the sun shower brought a rainbow
stretched tight against a starched blue sky