Rain

Inside, away from you

And the wetness

You bring

I hear nevertheless

Your dance upon the pain

Unceasing droplets 

As if delivered in perfect

Time to every parched thought

Every dry desire posing

Your reasons meaning nothing

For being, yet for everything

Meaning all that reason knows

My shelter is a hiding place 

Away from your steady falling

Yet soaked and welcoming your touch

Arrival of the very thing 

I knew all along that I needed

And wanted, running down my cheeks

Like the sweat of a lover’s passion

On warm summer night

Storming embrace consuming me

In this moment 

There is you and only you

Soaking the shape of me 

Becoming the outline of me 

As a fish slipping through water

Purest nature breathing life

Reaching skyward for your arrival

Deliciously tasting the wet gift

Around and through my living form.