Raindrop

by Columbine

If a raindrop fell where there was no sea
No ground to drink up its final momentum
If it fell and fell, with no reference point
For gravity or a water cycle
If a randrop reached terminal velocity
Falling as fast as a raindrop can
Neither speeding up nor slowing down
Evaporating or colliding
If a raindrop rained without a storm
Without even a place to call it weather
Wrapped in redundant surface tension
Ignorant of temperature and pressure
Would the raindrop still be a drop of rain
Water, by itself, seeking the center
Of a planet that wasn't there any more
If there ever was a planet or a center
If a raindrop fell for so very long
That there might as well never have been a cloud
That speed and direction became irrelevant
What could you call the raindrop then?

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