Lessons Unlearned

A grey cloud settles over a rippling sea. The quiet will end abruptly tonight. All that was built will come crashing down. That unsettling feeling that comes before the storm has made its home inside those involved. The earth will continue to circle the sun; life will continue for everyone else, but for those involved it will seem as though that earth has stopped; that life has ended. The first drop of water is so insignificant that it goes without notice. It falls to the ground in a soundless but purposeful plunge; and another follows; then another; and another. Soon they are drenched in an outcry of insults and blame, wondering where the sun has gone. They try to remember what caused the storm but the cause evades them. Thus, the lesson goes unlearned.