Storm and Stress

That a spider web supports a bead of rain
is as significant
as rain?s resolve, poised where some spinneret
has pitched its threads aslant,
since, held or holding, each endures a strain?
one presses, one reacts.
Don?t ask me what it?s worth. Despite the facts
of matter?s favored states,
such concentration?s of no consequence
beyond this life, a net
tailored to break, too late for recompense
when weight evaporates.