More April showers please, rain clouds

The land is cracking from drought

Only you can revive the dying trees

Lend me your petals, May flowers

I want to adorn my poems with your colors

To purge the gray from my melancholy

Shine your torches on my path, fireflies

The sky is darkened by gun smoke

Help me to find my homeward way

Sing me jovial songs, robins

Too much cacophony and clamor

From this troubled world

Stay longer if you may, Spring

To delay dreadful summer fires and

Horrendous storms owing to men’s greed

Don’t leave me, my plea to you, peace

I need to sail through a world

Full of turmoil and chaos

By Shih-Fang Wang

From: United States