Raining Time

Raining Time

Tears from a gray sky slowly weeping
And I am left bereft here alone.
Why do you stand so far away?
I have such a big umbrella.
We could snuggle up under here
Like ducklings under a frond.
You sit on the concrete
Water soaking you through
Running off the tip of your nose
Down your cheeks like crying.
Is this your way to sob?
I feel my heart straining towards you
I want to comfort, make it okay
But the pull of your sorrow
It is too strong for me, I'd drown.
I'd sink to the bottom of your pain
I don't think I could get out alive.
I stand under my pill-shaped umbrella
And watch you flail and rage
I keep myself dry somehow.