Weather Control

Today I caught myself
Praying for sunshine.

Remember the children's rhyme?
"Rain, rain go away.
Come again some other day."

Our best guess these days
Is that it's not a spirit
But a thing called "carbon footprint"
That affects the weather.

So a chant won't change the weather.
But a million people
Making choices about
When to drive or what to eat
Just might.

I wonder:
Do the ones who say,
"Global warming a a myth,"
Also pray for rain?


	27 August 2009
	by Bill Cattey