Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="BROKEN_NUMBERS" id="BROKEN_NUMBERS"></SPAN>Broken Numbers</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig"><span class="letra">A</span> MYSTERY puzzled and vexed me,<br/></span> <span class="ih">Unsolvable, strange and deep.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Perplexed and worn out in spirit<br/></span> <span class="i2">It followed me into my sleep.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Then with eyes that were heavy with dreaming<br/></span> <span class="i2">I drifted from darkness to dawn.<br/></span> <span class="i0">For the raindrops scattered my shadows<br/></span> <span class="i2">With numbers of broken song.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I thought of the heavy mystery<br/></span> <span class="i2">That troubled me yesterday,<br/></span> <span class="i0">It seemed I never could solve it<br/></span> <span class="i2">Or drive it completely away.<br/></span> <span class="i0">And I thought of the thousands of moments<br/></span> <span class="i2">When each, to oneself stands alone,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Thrown back on oneself for the answer<br/></span> <span class="i2">The answer that never comes home.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">As I pondered each sad broken number<br/></span> <span class="i2">The raindrops made on the pane,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The shine came to me, came in bundles,<br/></span> <span class="i2">For I heard the song in the rain.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_59" id="page_59">{59}</SPAN></span><br/></span> <span class="i0">Shine is a guest we have often<br/></span> <span class="i2">Grief being seldom is great.<br/></span> <span class="i0">I have no quarrel with mystery<br/></span> <span class="i2">I have no quarrel with fate.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_60" id="page_60">{60}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />