Fair-Weather Princess
A fair-weather princess
once wandered gardens long.
But she had no use for rain,
or getting wet in song,
with either friend or foe.
She's devoted to calm,
avoids forecasts in principle,
files storms under unacceptable
and thunder under whimsical.
"Better viewed from afar," she'd say,
than splashed in this weather’s mess."
So she built a moat of umbrellas
around her happiness.
By dodging every cloud,
every puddle, every scar,
she slowly turned herself
into a pickle in a jar—
sealed against the tempest,
safe from every squall and squirm,
until the rain she feared the most
was life itself, confirmed.
