Disappointment


Thunder clapped over the terrain,
The farmer looked up at the falling rain.
As the pellets fell on parched plain,
Smiling, he counted his future gain.

The rain poured all day long,
inundating fields of corn.
Nature looked so bleak so forlorn;
Dark clouds proclaimed a storm.

Winds howled and cows mooed,
lightning flashed, thunder followed.
Houses collapsed
and people fled.

Nature and her fury gone,
the sun did shine the next morn
on many a collapsed barn.
Thus descended calm after the storm.

The farmer had to look for grain,
as storm always raised Cain.
Now fields of corn a distant dream,
the land echoed the farmer's scream.