× In the rain's warmth ×

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Shirt undone and short braids swinging,
I looked to the clouds as the wind kept singing
An old love song to the old bells ringing
On a street called purple to which my heart kept clinging

Another stormy night was brewing in the heavens,
I could count the raindrops falling in twos and sevens,
Tugging at my coat I closed my eyes in the rain,
Withdrawing into the warmth of our times together again,

Gone was the cold and the patter of the rain,
Time slowed down and I could see those eyes again,
Filled with warmth and a summer that takes down a winter
And a beauty so rare that it clears the mind's litter

Traffic roared loud and the escape was cut,
Ten seconds back and the cold rushed in—
And as I scrambled for a shed to get out of the cold,
There she was for a second—and in a flash of purple, gone.


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