The smooth asphalt reflects back the dull glow of street lights
painted with inky rain, and
slick with night.
She gazes upward
into the cryptic heavens
unaware of the chill, the shivering,
searching for stars hidden by black,
shrouded in silver
and tucked into the moon’s pocket
safe and sound.
Alone in a vast cosmos
only sounds of shallow breathing
and the tides of droplets
relentlessly flooding her mind, her thoughts, her future, a murky depth she has not yet obtained.
But with this interupted silence comes peace
a song half remembered
a life half wasted…
The chance for new beginning
with a past washed into the twilight.
Rain brings new life
sprouted from almost nothing,
a tender, pure green
grown from the dust.
Held back only by
the fabric of time.