Who Loves the Rain

This deceptively simple poem captures something profound: the fierce, uncomplicated love of a child. Through the metaphor of rain, Frances Shaw writes about a parent's changing moods - the frowns, the tears, the storms that pass over a mother's face. And yet the child loves anyway. The poem asks "Who loves the rain?" and answers with the purest form of devotion: "I love you, mother, every day." It's the kind of verse that makes grown-ups pause, because it names something we spend our whole lives trying to remember about how love should feel.