Life happens

as we watch the rain

fall gently and then furiously

breaking the branches and

waking the seeds to fall and to sprout

and the floods to carry the soil

and the seeds atop houses and

mountains

life happens

as the cock welcomes

the sun to the brightening day

with crows deep throated with relief

that the night did not refuse to retire

life happens

as the old are replaced with the new

sometimes slowly and sometimes with

struggles and violence and loud bleating

as the cycle of life returns to where it started

and the memories are questioned by the realities

life happens

as we watch the hopes and the plans 

and wonder whether we made them or 

whether they made us 

as we see those consequences stray

and begat offsprings we did not count

life happens.