Love Poem: Our Signature of Rain
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Written by: Charles Eastland

Our Signature of Rain

OUR SIGNATURE OF RAIN

(for you Arlene, my True Love—  
     Valentine’s Day 2017)

Our signature is of the rain
it rained on our wedding day
relentless it rolled off new love
and on through all our events 
the heavens opened and poured 
on us soaked again at a Foxboro 
Patriots’ game and Eagles Concert 
were fogged in moving arm in arm
on fun Bar Harbor streets and shops

we shelved time a few days free 
as antique memories’ treasures
just us, more precious with age 

as newlyweds we went out then 
stepped into an unwritten history 
abandoned all smooth perfects
and fought for rough agreements 
like how a constant sun oppresses
how a rainy day cozies us inward
we sought each other’s soft spots
preferred home cooking and wine 
by the preferred sea of possibility

in time we recognized the need 
for this ingredient of rain to grow 
we learned to see each other’s lacks
to fill in cracks that made us strong
each strength firmed each weakness  
so merged differences to live as we
 
now age is sweeping swift time away
with us too Dear goes an age where
much was claimed yet nothing owned
what I’ll remember most of our lives 
is love and work and music in the rain

Charles Eastland