Blessed rain

Blessed rain was written a long time ago when I still struggled with depression and substance abuse. Those dark times turned into narratives that beg to put into words every so often.

Laughter in my head

and I swear I'm thankful,

the rain takes away my dread.
The pain has left me you see

washed away by these raindrops,

I hear my heart stop and I don't care.

Laughter beyond the irony,

hypocrisy,

Lord can you see my way?

Drifting and laughing,
My body trembling and sweating,

I swear I'm thankful,

the sun erases the hidden places,

it takes me to myself

and I left Him in sweet serenity.

Unbidden the sun wrenches me from wealth,

the wealth of solitude and peace,

laughter in my head,
I swear I'm thankful,

blessed rain,

the glass shatters as it lands,

glass syringes and spent cigarettes,

a bottle of Henny in the cabinet,

wasted,
empty,

the pain has left me you see,
that's why I proclaim I love the rain.
They say you chase the dragon,

I see,
I see the dragon in my dreams,

lucid, waking dreams,

glass shatters,

I stagger,
my body sweating,

I can't stop the trembling,

I'm losing all control,

the laughter in my head

but now I notice my throat yearning for relief

all that laughter's coming from my mouth.

 

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[An owl on the moon]

You make words dance and play... dark and light mingling through the world around you... So powerfully expressed like a song...