rain pours down and no longer cleanses
instead
it drowns the new growth and erodes the soil that had been carefully amended
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for their need of tender protection and cultivation from the elements
they now remain submerged.
concealed from light.
smothered from oxygen.
depriving them of nutrients to flourish.
they soon wither
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