A Breath In The Rain

Six shapes

Almost motionless

In the misty air

(Not raining yet)

We wait

For a morning train

To take us elsewhere

It’s not what we want to do

But there’s not much else to really choose

Do you do it too?

Mornings

Weigh down on me

Like a final sky

(No air up there)

This place

Is home to trouble for

A million other lives

Every time I take a breath in the rain

I feel a shiver running through my veins

Here it comes

Birds burst

Just overhead

Like a sudden bloom

(And then they’re gone)

Good God!

That’s beautiful!

Did you see it too?

Into the sky they go

Maybe it’s not what they want to do

I don’t know

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