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I cried today.
I cried because of the rain
and with the rain
and with the pain
and with all the happiness it brought running over me.

You've seen death.
You've seen death
and you've seen life
rushing out to meet it like a best friend.
You've seen death embracing life's feet,
kissing the soles of it's master.
Covering them with this rain
and with this pain
and with all the happiness they both have found.

Religion hasn't always been in me
but there's this verse
this string of words I carry
on my hip like a sword
ready to fight this rain
and this pain
and this happiness too if I must.

"There's a light that shines in the darkness,"
I say.
And this I say because
without it I couldn't see my way
as it's laid out before me.
Without the darkness I couldn't see that light
or that rain
or that pain
or that happiness in any shade.

"And the darkness will never overcome it,"
I pray.
Because without the light
I could never feel the darkness
that scares the living s**t out of me
but that also holds me and my dreams every night
through the rain
and the pain
and the happiness I find in them.

I smiled today.
I smiled because I am able
to spread my fingers
and catch my life as it falls from the sky
with this rain
and with this pain
and with this happiness.