what is the cloud to the sun?

For what is the cloud to the sun,

It is nothing. The wind has always

Driven it away and the sun does not

Care. For want of love and care, the

Cloud plays with the fields and the

River and the sea. Impregnated it

Has conceived , and gives

Birth to the rain. The fields and the

Sea and the rivers feasted. The fields

Grow the grass and the flowers.

The sea and the rivers have

Seeded its waters with more fish.

The cloud does not like it. It has

Always dreamt of the sun but the

Wind has always blown it away.

At night the cloud talks to the moon.

And seeing the likeness of its light

To the sun that it loves, the cloud

Makes love with the shining moon.

It has given birth to the stars.

The following morning, the cloud

Is exhausted. It floats with the

Chastisements of the wind. There

Is no more direction. It still dreams

Of the sun. It dies and becomes

Taken as part of the wind. The

Cloud has become a white, clear

Sky. It is nothing. It is what you

See, when love is unrequited.