Desert Rainwater
Falling from cloud is life giving water
Beautiful as it drops, sheets of wet
Makes chilled your skin for a time
A life-giving gift from sky in kind

It cools desert floor, annoys snake and beetle
Moving the ground as gravity pulls
Summer rain falls heavy and quick
More water is absorbed, plant root will stick

Assists in holding ground from erosion
Instead of wind and rain causing damage
A Mesquite root digs into material
Root slows change from water’s arterial

Plant root wages a consistent fight
The plant improves with each defense it wages
Fortifies the residence for lizard and bug
Keeps them from chore of new home to be dug

Water for the desert, infrequent and heavy
Both mountain and creature see hindrance and gain
Land changes as water destroys and dissects
Not dry Mesquite plant, old life it resurrects