Cleaning Out

I have been going through old papers trying to throw away the hopelessly out-dated material in my files.  Some of what I am finding is not at all out-dated though, and impossible to throw out.  Like this poem:

Become the Rain

Become the rain, my friend / Don't just let it happen outside your mind

Become the Heart of things

Use your mind for paying the rent/ And getting from A to Z on time

But let your Heart tell your mind / When it is time to let go

And how to make Peace / And how to make grim men laugh

And how to bring a flower back to life.

Become the rain

And how it dances with the wind

Become the silence between the drops / The light between the dark

There you will find the forgotten you

Waiting.

Maria Illo

(Maria Illo died on August 17, 1996 at 56)