After the Rain

A poem from my first book, Nature's Voice.

After the rain comes
Earth is a cleaner place;
dirt, grime and stress
the waters do erase.

All about in nature
is rebirth to be seen:
birdsong sounds the sweeter,
the grass looks more green,

the temperature is more fair,
the sky is so much lighter,
more free is the air,
the Sun so much brighter.

As it is in nature,
so it is in life;
to have the greatest peace
you must know the greatest strife.

The rainstorms of life,
unpleasant though they be,
leave us the cleaner
and make us more free.

Refreshed and renewed,
washed free of sin and pain,
life is better, brighter,
after comes the rain.

David Jamison