Crops need rain to grow, but too much rain can cause damage, reducing yields, lowering quality, and even rotting crops in the field.
Your prompt is ROT
Feckless flooded fields
The future rotting in mud
The reaper comes, for us
Today a bad harvest can mean financial ruin for a farmer, but throughout history it has meant starvation and famine.
Foul breath of the grave
Worms weave through the tangled past
Fingers of decay
The smell hangs, wet, foul,
Unlocking protohuman
Memories of death.