What Is The Meaning Of Rain? Poem by Oleg Vorobyov

What is the meaning of rain?
Wherever it might fall,
The Ukraine,
Or Spain,
Or some far, faraway terrain
(Say, nitric, acid)

Is rain that simple as a self-suggestive claim?
Whenever it might surge,
On time's verge,
Or a momentous stage,
Or ever without age
(When Kronos is misplaced)

The poet might find waterfalls of rhyme
Sprinkled with -ein,
Like "drain", "pain", "bane" or "lane"
(Now, I /pardon me/ abstain
In this continuance…

And I once had it for the asking
Soaked to fiber under caskets,
Pails, vats and barrelfuls of rain
Oh, no deity could refrain,
However hard I might have prayed,
From staining me in its most fluid nuance!

20/08/2018