and then there was the rain...

And so there was the rain...
____that fell on through the chilly night...

There i stood,
____staring up...
________then staring down...
feeling each raindrop roll down my cheek
and watching them fall on my

____________________cold feet...

but most of them were tears.

And i keep walking...

I keep walking to the east
_____against the winds the hidden moon
______________keeps blowing my way...
and the frozen velvet that was the night
___________sparkled with shards of rain
_______that cut my face and stung my eyes...

but i catch each drop upon my freezing chest
________and the bleeding happens beneath,
_______________where my heart is.

I have had nights like this,
_____and the mornings were cold and gray.

But the sun was somewhere behind
____________all the howling of the roses
____that i crushed beneath my careless feet.

So i keep walking...

This time gingerly. Carefully ever after.

Through the rainy nights...
_____________the gray days...
___and the shadows of dreamless dreams...

and one day perhaps,
____the morning will be golden again.

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