I hear the thunder
a rumble in the distance
attended by flashes of light,
and rain.
Moving at its own speed
neither slow nor hurried
cleaning and healing and washing,
like rain.
An integral and intimate component
of what lives, and is, and will
following its path and swath, wet
with rain.
Washing my face, smoothing lines
of worry and doubt, and fear,
falling on my hair, washing
with sound and sense and light,
like rain.
Time is not chronology
or a clock
Time is sometimes soft.
often hard, and driving
always cleansing,
like rain.
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Photograph: Before the storm by Larisa Larisa via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.
