Rain drips down my face
From my forehead to the tip of my nose
Before plunging onto the sidewalk
Tourists bound in wonder
Stop where they stand
Gazing toward the sky
What do they see that I can not?
Music pours into my ears
Drowning out everything around me
Leaving me deaf to the world
My jeans cling to my legs
Morphing into a second skin
As my shoes fill with water
Children huddle near their parent's legs
Protected from the wet and cold
That emanates within this dreary city
Puddles fill with raindrops
As the street fills with people
Each of us a single drop of rain
Doesn’t it feel lonely?
Falling alone from so high above
Abandoned by the cloud which created you
The rain, heavy and rapid
Baptizes me
Until I am clean
Washing me away
Until I am nothing less
Than the skeleton trapped within
Sprout flowers
From the cracks
Laid within the concrete
And resurrect my soul
As I wish to live
For as long as the water flows
Let me be free
As free as the rain
That pours upon my head
Written by Grace Bugin