It Looked Like Rain, But Then

It looked like rain, and then the sky

Unchained a lovely melody

That filled its girth with azure mirth

Where they said a gray cloud would be

It looked like rain, but then instead

Of splish-and-splash, it turned the page

And chose a tune of sun-gold noon

With blue atop a sweep of sage

Sometimes it looks like rain but then

The waters in a higher hand

Part wondrously like the Red Sea

And we walk through Day on dry land

© Janet Martin

I waited to do laundry because earlier it clouded over

and looked like rain before turning into sun-gold Hallelujahs!