Subject: raindrop
From: "Benjamin Phelan" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:46:33 -0700

For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river -
unbearable pain becomes its own cure.

Travel far enough into sorrow and tears become sighing;
in this way we learn how water can die into air.

When, after heavy rain, the stormclouds disperse,
is it not that they've wept themselves clear to the end?

It is the rose's unfolding that creates the desire to see;
in every color and circumstance may the eyes be open
for what comes.

 - Chali