The Grass Is Never Greener

a poem by matt ⭒ july 12, 2026

the girl who stands under the silver cloud
curses the rain and cries for clear skies.
the boy who walks below the boiling sun
begs for thunder and the mercy of the rain.

the girl ignores the boy's desperate pleas
and insists that he is spoiled by his sun.
yet in her lifetime, she will never know
that all the grass had withered in his world.

the boy never believes in the girl's suffering
and scorns her for not cherishing her rain.
yet in his lifetime, he will never know
that all the grass had flooded in her world.

and such is the story of their tragic existence:
the girl under the cloud, the boy below the sun,
each doomed to think the other's grass is greener
when no grass could grow anywhere in this world.