Downpour

After the clouds have gathered

Notched themselves into the sky

Drunk on liquid thunder

Weary and ready to hang dry

How the rains shall pour down

Atop the flooded plain

Turning the barren soil

Igniting all that isn’t sane 

Forgotten things come crawling 

Ignored thoughts toss about   

Here amongst the lightning 

Are all the fears and every doubt 

Vicious as the thunder 

Echoing inside your skull

Numbing the ragged edges 

Of every flight and fall

Take nothing from this place

Hearing only these unknowns 

In all the liquid lightning

Notched into your bones

Go now, while you can -

Take your breath and run away

Or drown amidst the downpour 

Swelling in the fray 

After the clouds have scattered

You can find dry land some day