A Cold Rain

Sometime revelations come from a storm

A cold rain, it is tonight

The glass protects me from its might

Warm inside, I watch the rain

Bouncing off my window’s pane

 

My lover sleeps, at least I think

Across town, yet not I, one wink

I cannot stop my thoughts as they fly

To the warm bed where I wish to lie

 

Apart, we remain, yet together we are

What is a small distance can feel so far

When alone, I am feeling and want him I do

Would he come to me, if he only knew?

 

Sighs full of longing, escape my lips

As I trace upon the glass with fingertips

A heart meant to say “I love him so”

A secret only the rain shall know

 

Little rivulets form, running down the glass

Looking like tears from my heart as they pass

The thought saddens me and I turn away

I should lie back down and await the day

 

Pull my pillows to me, I’ll pretend

That the warmth they bring is really him

A soft tapping stops my retreating steps

My thoughts fly to where my bat is kept

 

Tiptoeing to the door biting my lip

Silly thoughts fill my mind, on the light I flip

A robber would not knock at all

A salesman in the night wouldn’t call

 

I open the door, only a crack

On the porch stands a figure, turning his back

As if he will leave, has re-thunk his thoughts

Maybe was thinking “I really should not”

 

My heart jumps ahead like a runaway train

My lover pauses, then turns back from the rain

I see the uncertainty flee from his eyes

As they rest upon me, stay calm I must try

 

“You’re awake” he stated as if not surprised

I let the door open, inviting him inside

“I couldn’t sleep” I replied my eyes darting about

he entered and crossed to the window, looking out

 

“Neither could I” he said softly and slow

I closed the door, against the cold rain that would blow

He stood facing away, seeming ashamed that he’d come

I stood loving him silently, body alive but brain numb

 

I watched as his hand reached out to the glass

Tracing rain track tears as thru my heart they pass

“I was missing you” he whispered as if afraid to let go

of the words he was not sure I wanted to know

 

“And I you” I replied taking hesitant steps

He turned with a smile, into my throat my heart lept

“May I ask a question?” was the next thing he said

I could only nod, feeling my cheeks glowing red

 

“Do you think we could be, maybe falling in love?”

“I mean, I’ve never felt this way..of this I’m sure of”

I could only look at him, hypnotized

Nod my head slightly, paralyzed

 

He took the steps needed to reach me and smiled

The most wonderful smile full of love, not denial

“I feel like I have been just a shell of a man”

he whispered as he reached out, taking my hand

 

“Until I met you, then suddenly I was filled”

“with the feelings I just can’t keep concealed”

My eyes filled with tears, my lips went to speak

Yet he reached up to touch them, making me weak

 

“If you don’t love me back, I’ll understand”

he said with the pride you will find in a man

“But I’ll keep on loving you and someday you might”

“I’ll win your heart over by treating you right”

 

and with that he replaced his fingers with kiss

in a soft then deeper caress of pure bliss

I felt I then died, as my heart nearly burst

From loving him so, as I had from the first

 

Reviews

[Baby Boy]

Wow! This beautiful and tghe rhyming is perfect as is the title! What a story this is and there is something about the rain isn't it? :) Great write and Iwas glued to every last stanza! Keep up the good work! This was awesome! One luv!

-JC-

[coldust]

thtz a fine peice of art you've penned down. reading u'r poem dos stir a lot of emotions.
in short its sweet and blissfull....reminds of fresh days of love!