the rain falls from the grey sky
in which no creatures fly
no sounds at all come from the earth
no sounds of life or of birth
in the rubble ashes play,
until the rains wash them away
the mud flows,
down barren hills it go's
no rain now falls upon the ground
silence is such a deafening sound

01/01/1988

Posted on 07/19/2006
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