This I Am

I am the clouds,

the rain, the rose,

the face that was

and the face that will be.

From my dust

that drinks the lake

life will fall in drops

from heaven

to water spring.

I am a child

of earth,

sister to the ocean,

hope’s hand

forestalling

the desert’s march

to the sea.

©Susie Clevenger 2013

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