My Rain

You are more than life.


You are the cooling rain

Outside my open window.


I boil when walls emerge

But there you are;


Knocking them down,

Reminding me that I am

Occupied.


You are the breath I take

For granted—unconditional;


Filling my lungs,

Releasing my tears,


Steadying me into a stream

Of a much-needed blank slate.


No flurries of inadequacy

May stick,


When you are my rain.