Geese--they don't care

Geese gleefully joining in formation

don’t care if it is raining outside.

Hail is pouring buckets on them

and sliding off of them like a duck.

I wish I were a waterfowl 

enjoying soaring

no matter how

wet in the sky, I could fly.

If ever I were reincarnated

into something else

I would choose to become a pelican.

They dive straight down

splashing into the ocean

catching a fish every time.

Geese, pelicans, and ducks

don’t care what the weather is like outside.

Their strong resilience supports

creative adaptation to sky, water, and land.