Just a Drop
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When you come as the rain on farmer’s field
We greet you with a smile of relief and hope
Your arrival the sustenance to our hard work
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When you flail in the fury of driving storm
We curse you with tangible malice and hate
Fearful of the destruction you can leave behind
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When you appear as the abundant and still lake
We frolic upon you and bask at your shores
Reveling in all you are and all you offer
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When you fall as pristine flakes of snow
We watch in wonder of your beauty
Even when the beauty becomes a beast
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In the views you obscure with blanketed fog
We must work harder to see things clearly
You the excuse for what we do not see
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As flowing river rushing head long to the sea
We see strength that moves mountains
And carries all things to their rightful home
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In vapor you adorn our skies with billow and cloud
A majestic and constantly changing tapestry
In which lovers find shapes and share secrets
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Freezing attitudes harden you to the world
Your rigidity ever apparent in your icy state
Cast as an impediment to our safety and travel
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When you stream down the face of the stricken
Your brine the necessary, visible carrier of pain
We find compassion and fight to make you vanish
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We choose our admiration or annoyance
Based solely on how you appear in that moment
Though you always have and will always be just water
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And no matter the external or internal that exists
We see others in the same wavering perception
Though they always have and will always be just people
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commonsensiblyspeaking 
Oh, how I love this one! You stay true to the topic of how we perceive water. Thankful when it benefits us and hateful when it does not. Then, at the end you take a sharp turn and remind us that we do the same with people, who are mostly composed of water! Excellent!! Another one for the list!
I LOVE water, so I am especially fond of this one!! So well written, my dear friend! ❤
Thank you, my friend! I am glad you enjoyed it. You must be a water sign!
water can quickly change from soothing to dangerous and we have to know how to recognize and deal with it all. wonderfully penned
Thank you, Beth! May you never be without an umbrella.
A true study of the human psyche because we see but yet we blind ourselves and fail to understand. The qualifiers we proffer upon water and people are one and the same. Brilliant!
Thank you, my dear friend!
You’re very welcome my friend!
Water. Too much or too little. Too good, Brad.
Thank you, Geoff!