Love the wordplay of rain/reign, but I do not know if I know whose reign we are talking about, or the reign of what. Perhaps I am just sleepy still? But I also really badly need there to be punctuation. I definitely have a thing for punctuation but can usually stomach it when it's consistently absent from a poem. But in this case we get a comma after every rain/reign and that makes it hard to be without punctuation everywhere else. Love it otherwise

I really like this. It to me has a a tale of two cities  vibe.  I like the sensory detail. Well done! 

My only two criticisms: 

1. Find another word than raindrop. It cheapens the impact of the rain/reign wordplay. Drops would work better--adds a little ambiguity but keeps the water imagery alive.
2. Cut out the filler between "streaked down my cheek" & the last couplet. It's a bit on the nose and reads more like prose.

We danced, for rainfall

on a cloudless day

--

When the rivers ran dry 

the ground cracked

a toothless smile

while our crops

withered in decay

--

We danced, for rainfall

on a cloudless day

--

As men were directed 

to kill each other pointlessly

--

Still-

We danced, for reign fall

on a cloudless day

--

Because it was all we

could do when our children

were trained to hate those

across the sunken valley

--

I still remember the first

raindrop that fell and 

streaked down my cheek

--

It gave me hope 

that more would fall

--

And in the days that followed 

people began to dance

for a new reign

and sheets billowed

from the sky

blanketing our fields

in prosperity

--

And trumpets bloomed

to welcome the reign to come

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