RAIN

Gently did Fall leaves rustle
among the stately trees
as the maidens of wind
their velocity did increase
causing a blue canopy above
to rapidly shift to a dark gray,
soon, first drops began to fall
increasing in scope to full rain,
winds now fiercer their howling began
water in sheets seemed to drown
all that sight could see, obscuring
with darkened skies, all visibility
the sound of wind, of driving rain
an eerie, steady rhythm conjured,
which in a most strange way,
relieved my tensions,
relaxed my mind -
suddenly I thought of you.

Warm my feelings,
a smile on my face,
as I recalled a most
similar inclement day -
we rushed for shelter
thoroughly soaked,
laughing, shouting all the way
happy, the joke was on us,
for we were younger then
there was nothing we could not do,
no obstacle to great,
we looked at each other
though dripping wet, embraced,
to the tune of the howling winds,
and the sound of the driving rain.

Herbert Holzbauer
© November 2002

Midi: "November Rain"
(Guns 'n Roses)
Sequencer: Norma Williams

Art: "Rain"
Artist: John Sloan