Unnamed

The thunder rolls across the barren landscape of my mind
And the lightning strikes my heart.
The rain streams down my face, like so many falling tears.
It's just a storm, I tell myself,
And it will surely pass.
Like the days and the months, the seasons and the years,
Rolling by, rolling by, rolling by...
like summer love
the autumn breeze
winter chill
or spring's fresh outlook.
Rolling by and leaving me like...

Dewdrops dried upon a spider's web
or...
The feeling you get after you see the happiness and innocent love of a father and baby going by
or...
like so many used soaps.

But it is, after all, just a storm.
And I will weather it.
(Just like I weathered you)
It will pass.
(Just like you)
And I will love again.

The thunder...

2001 evk