Re: Wishing for Rain -- Poetry & Grace

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Date Posted: 02/27/06 6:42:33pm
Author: Louie
Subject: Re: Wishing for Rain
In reply to: Matthew 's message, "Re: Wishing for Rain" on 02/27/06 2:28:29pm

>Good work Matthew.

I don't know how to edit, or even if you can, so I'm
>posting a new version, as I believe it reads more
>smoothly...
>
>----------
>
>Wishing for Rain
>
>----------
>
>I've been wishing for rain,
>wanting the sky to fall bit by bit, drop by drop.
>There's just too much weight
>pressing down,
>suspended over me,
>and the collapse will come,
>if I'm lucky.
>
>Little bitty tears will collect in oceans -
>only miniature,
>and I wont sink when I splash around.
>I'll walk on the surface,
>with a little more confidence,
>a little more faith.
>
>Seeping into street cracks,
>it will fill all the holes,
>lifting up the settled dust,
>oil,
>and most toxic of all - thoughts -
>and carry them all away.
>
>The weight has broken to bits,
>at last,
>and I can handle bits.
>Winding away they take them -
>the thoughts I regretted thinking,
>even if only thought for an instant -
>the dreams where I did everything bad,
>and never felt guilty enough -
>everything I could not carry -
>and they float away in little rivulets,
>branching off of a single puddle,
>each sin belonging to its own river.
>
>The road is clean and empty,
>ready to be filled with life again.

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Re: Wishing for Rain -- Matthew, 02/28/06 12:20:00pm