Saturday, March 9, 2013

Love Like the Rain

For my memories of blissful love



Fallen rain,
Like piercing arrows shot from a recurve.
Freezing its targets,
Skin stings like a wasp.


A musky smell,
The ground secretes in its defense.
It fills the air like a noxious gas.
It smells sweet like honey as it enters my nose.

Sheets fall and roughly splashing into puddles.
Puddles that look dark in the night like ebony eyes shining.
It dances aimlessly across the plain and cracked earth.
I watch it lick like flames in a pit.

Cool gales blow,
Churning the puddles like waves of the sea.
I want to be on a small sailboat rocking back and forth,
Challenging Poseidon’s power in the wake.

Rain like this is like love:
Rough.
I couldn’t imagine life as rain.
Splashing to the ground and evaporating, cycling.

Love in humans: changes.
Changes from day- to-day,
Never-ending, but fading quickly.
But loving like the rain, in cycles, is real.

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