Yesterdays' Rain

Yesterdays’ Rain

 

Sometimes, the worst part of the storm is when its over.

When everything, or everyone is gone, and you’d give anything just to see their raindrop silhouettes

 standing somewhere in the distance, waiting tearfully just for you to notice;

But you know that sort of thing is the stuff of fairy tales- fictional stories we tell to children

Just to make them believe in this thing called hope, or faith, or anything of the like,

even though we ourselves, lost such fancies long, long ago.

Long before the storm- Before Yesterdays Rain.

It’s the burden of the air as you sift through the ruins, even if you know there is nothing left to cherish

It’s the cold that strikes your bones when there is nothing to hold close for warmth-

It’s the backside of the storm as it rolls on- ever more distant, yet you can still it thunder;

 It still cries havoc- though somewhere else; dragging the pieces of you along for the ride

Though its you that feels impaled lifeless

 

 

It’s the voices on the winds that push along their way

Echoing “that was your mistake… your mistake..”

 

It’s the mud you drag up trying to dig yourself a grave

Just to watch it fill back up, as if a broken ship

Bound for Davy’s Depths

 

Funny how life’s greatest gifts can turn into its most terrible of curses- whether by flood, bolt,

Or the most dreaded of words-

 

Sometimes, even if the rain is not falling at all,

The skies seem like they never intend to clear..

 

Yesterdays’ Rain come todays’ wrenching pain;

Regrets brought up from the earth by the floods

 

And for once in your life,

You long, beg, with everything you’ve got left

 for a little light to shine down through these vicious clouds-

leftovers of Yesterdays’ Rain 

Reviews

[Meliss@k]

How does this poem not have any other reviews?!?!

This was absolutely fantastic! A fantastic read! A fantastic write! Every stanza left me in deeper "awe" of how perfect the wording was and how perfect everything flowed together and how perfectly you created sounds and images in my head as i read!
Great work!

[A.J.]

wow well thank you very much for stopping by! lol. I don't get many reviews at all; I'd almost given up hope. Im glad you enjoyed it!

[Meliss@k]

i really did! I hadn't written anything for a while till a few days ago and like to look through my older writings and see the comments of what people said, so i have been reading some of the peoples poems that commented on my own, and you were one of the people. keep it up!