When fire challenges rain

Oh how the fire hates the rain
How it drives its brilliant embers
Down the drain
Turns its raging heat to cloudy steam
Where only ugly gray is seen
Then goes away and never comes again
Oh those sparkling ashes disappear
Before they have delivered all their fear
The fire engines come too late
To make the folks appreciate
The power of their gear
So Mother Nature wins again
As fire seeks to light within
A place where rain will not again be near