Common Sense

Rain is pounding on the ground everywhere

But somehow it is all missing me

I feel like I don't deserve to be sheltered like this.

What have I done to deserve it?

It doesn't matter-- it's still avoiding me-- I'm still dry.

There is no sunlight anywhere

Only gray skies and dark clouds

And of course, the rain--

   the rain that won't touch me.

As I sit and ponder why it's happening,

I realize that I haven't moved at all.

Then I took a step out from under the roof

   and the rain began to fall