And then came the rain

Is God waiting behind that cloud?

Will he leap out and say, “Ah ha; I told you so!”

But I’m stubborn;

I won’t play.

I would rather look down at my toes in the sand.

Wait; stay with me a minute.

Let me walk just a little further,

Yes,

I think I’ll gaze out over the ocean

and watch the sun rise

with my eyes closed.

When it all falls silent behind my lids

I see everything that created me

floating around in living sparks.

Let me journey a little further

and step over that decade.

Now, that’s a chasm just too dark to fall into.

But there;

my mom and dad.

She and he were doing this thing and that thing

and then…a miracle!

I just plunged right out into existence.

and now like sand sculptures they stand

washing away with the tide.

Everybody loses the thing that made them!

I think I’ll walk a little

…and it’s okay to cry now.

because all our footprints are washed away

and time, like a long bath

wrinkles my youth

and the depths of the sea call me

when the rains come.

I guess I’ll walk on

because I think that’s me I see

up ahead in the distance.