Still Falls the Rain: Seventy Years Later

This one was inspired by Edith Sitwell's "Still Falls the Rain", in which "the rain" refers both to the air-strikes of WWII and the blood of Christ.

        Still falls the rain
seventy years since Sitwell wrote,
    and still some quote
        her words of pain
    with air-strikes in the brain.

        Still falls the blood,
and where the flesh has been torn wide,
    it gushes from Christ's side
        alike on good
    and bad, all brotherhood.

        Still falls the rhyme
along with air-strikes in the brain.
    Still falls, still falls the rain.
        Still falls the crime.
    Still falls the sand of time.