Rain

its hard to listen to a hard hard heart
beating close to mine
pounding up against the stone and steel
walls that i won't climb
sometimes the hurt is so deep deep deep
you think that your gonna drown
sometimes all i can do is weep weep weep
with all this rain falling down

Patty Griffin Rain


I know I have quoted that song before but it remains one of my very favorites.

And it has been running in my head for the past couple hours.

I just took a long walk in the rain followed by a long hot shower.

There is something so therapeutic about the rain...

The way it sounds as it hits the pavement, the way it dances on your skin when it reaches you, the way it feels when it runs down your face and mingles in your tears, even the way it can chill you to the very core of your being...

Rain makes you feel alive, it washes away a bit of the brokenness, it comforts you with its own melancholy sound, it soothes your weary soul.

All I want to do is escape.

Somehow, somewhere, find the place where my heart no longer feels and my head is no longer filled with thoughts that don't let me sleep.

And so I walked in the rain. And for just a moment, the world washed away.