"Rain Light" by W. S. Merwin

                         

 

                            RAIN LIGHT

      All day the stars watch from long ago

      my mother said I am going now

      when you are alone you will be all right

      whether or not you know you will know

      look at the old house in the dawn rain

      all the flowers are forms of water

      the sun reminds them through a white cloud

      touches the patchwork spread on the hill

      the washed colors of the afterlife

      that lived there long before you were born

      see how they wake without a question

      even though the whole world is burning.

                                       --W. S. Merwin