
Thoughts
I was raised in England, where it is wet
days on end and better yet
and when the sun does finally shine
the people smile and think it’s divine
Look, the sun, you hear them say
maybe this time it will stay
around for just a little while
just to make our lives worthwhile.
When my mother offered me the chance
to come to America following her dance
I was torn if we should go
I loved the English country so
but the end the choice was made
after three weeks of rain, I was dismayed
she wrote and said it was 8:00 am
and was going to be sunny again
with a temperature forecast of eighty five
making her glad to be alive
I talked it over with my wife
she too was fed up with rainy life
and though reluctant she agreed
and to America we did leave
coming over on a big ship
with all of our things on the trip
from Southampton on the English side
arriving in New York to reside
When we arrived in the United States
to drive to Fort Plain the journey to take
to a little place just a dot on the map
in the Mohawk Valley and hard to track
wondering what the future would hold
and how had we managed to be so bold
as to sell our home and everything we had
leaving our country which made us sad.
That first night as we slept
in a farmhouse that my mother kept
it snowed thirteen inches of the stuff
the most I had seen and much more than enough
and we wondered why we had complained
coming here to get away from the rain
only to find that it was worse
in a different part of the Universe.
We got used to the weather and the sun did shine
more than it rained and most of the time
and now in Texas we look for the rain
to keep things green for them not to change
as not too many miles away
there is a desert and no rain which to play
but for now, we will take what we get
As Mother Nature the weather does set.
Written 4/07/2023. Read my other poems at https://pondblog2011.com
Too rainy in one place, too cold or not other, and as far as I’m concerned here it’s just right.
Although we do run the complete gambut of weather. What is the saying,”If you do not like the weather here in Texas, wait 10 minutes and it will change”.