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| rain revisited |
| child of rain, |
| windowpanes glisten their tears |
| to indifferent grays of the day; |
| in the dusk of a season, |
| a time you'd not tell, |
| you chose to leave it behind -- |
| fleeing your deluge |
| your firm ground's |
| sinking betrayal |
| leaving the hands of close bridges |
| with nothing to hold but yourself. |
| and you show me strong smiles, |
| and steep granite resolve |
| that things weak and warm |
| would erode from; |
| you forget what it's like |
| to wring hands of soft clay in the rain |
| dreams dissolving downstream |
| colors bleeding to gray. |
| child of rain, |
| holding firm |
| in your wind-driven grace, |
| your torrents falling in sheets |
| clinging to you; |
| glistening shadows trace |
| the lines of your face, |
| their shimmering tear-trail that flees |
| a half-breath's turn from your eyes |
| that still hold |
| light's soft sinking. |
| © Jon Bohrn (1999) |
Raindrop effect by Anfy
