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And after it all,

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It rained.

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It rained a weight 

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The likes of which 

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He’d never really seen -

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Buckets upended

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From the edge of heaven’s precipice,

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Torrential in its deluge and 

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Cast from beyond the firmament.

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And while he watched it fall,

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Dampening summer’s desiccation and

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The arid odor of the concrete,

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He too, cried -

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Subsisting his small residues, alongside

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The laden cascade of a sea.

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He too, cried,

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And a decade, too, fell with it -

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Not from grief, not falling for joy,

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Not for pain, or abandon or disbelief,

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Not out of an empty despondence

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Or for the benefit of an emphasis 

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Against the cliché of the rain-motif,

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But when he cried, just then,

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He cried from a place of relief -

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Falling, 

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For all of the years that’d long since passed

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And for all of the things that he’d seen.

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Author's Note

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