Love Poem: Love's Rain
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Written by: Charlie Smith

Love's Rain

After what seemed a forever trudge through this
     hostile, barren, unforgiving vapid expanse, I took
     pause and sought shade from the unrelenting flame 
     of disconnection that the environs of my isolation
     afforded.  A vicarious air seemed to always haunt 
     me with ramblings of bygone failure and loss.  
     My thirst found no escape.  My heart found no shadow.
     As hope seeped slowly from my soul, delusional 
     thoughts began their inevitable pervasive search for
     reality.  From what could only be conceived in a 
     dream, I began to feel an aqueous vapor surrounding
     me.  In this providential state, my lips tasted the life
     giving softness of love's rain bringing revival and 
     rewarding need with renewal.  I bathed in this shower.
     It cleansed me of the dust of dissolution.  As its 
     intensity subsided, I was rewarded again with its
     petrichor of pleasurable hope.  I rose in peace and
     began anew as life with purpose must claim...


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