Even if you won’t stay forever

A poem

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You are welcome
Even if you won’t stay forever
Most of my flowers
Have been killed by standing water

Departing
Doesn’t mean you came in vain
The roots are grateful
To the drops that move through soil

And when you evaporate
You can return as raindrops

Permanence’s only power
On this planet
Is that it has convinced us
That we need it

Joan Loyce, April 2021