Cause And Effect Poem by James Walter Orr

Lightning breeds thunder and sunshine breeds heat;
Spring rains make the green grasses grow.
Fruit of the harvest allows us to eat
And drink where the sweetest streams flow.

Coolness of Autumn turns green grasses brown.
The thunderstorms make a retreat.
Flowers lose petals and nectar slows down.
Our hearts are no longer replete.

Earth spins in space like a sheave on its shaft.
We must bend its time to our needs.
Potters shape clay on the wheel of their craft.
One tempers one’s metal by deeds.

More than one rainbow will color the sky.
Each offers its own pot of gold.
Day dreams and fantasies can’t ask the why;
They‘re seldom what we had foretold.

Offer those sweet lips for one parting kiss;
Your body to bid me goodbye.
Sadness will temper our last day of bliss:
The sorrow that it will imply.

Love lasts forever: the way we define,
The way it is shown can transform
How that our heart, soul and body assign
The way our emotions perform.

Life is well lived if we spend it to learn
Of rapture’s twin brother, despair,
Before we know the hard lesson, to yearn,
In ways that we never can share.