Lazarus Clouds

LAZARUS CLOUDS

We are like parts of clouds
Gliding through blue heavens
Blown in many directions
Shaped by forces unseen.

Sometimes we touch!
A part of you stays with me
I leave some of myself.

Don't hide the sun in darkness
or shake the sky in thundered voices
feared, but soon forgotten.

As a breath exhaled, we disperse
Tears of rain that fall to earth:
A lake, a drink, a puddle of mud
Many shapes, yet...always the same

And then again, we rise
the parts of clouds