Catastrophic Clouds

Faded Drawing

I opened my eyes to see a little boy
His back faced towards me
As he crouched
Drawing on the sidewalk
I was going to ask to join him
But when I looked up at the sky
The clouds were dark grey
So I asked the boy
"Are you going inside?"
The boy didn't look at me
Didn't even say a word
He only stood
And pointed at what he drew
There was a heart
A smiling boy
And a girl
A pair of hands holding each other
I was going to tell him how good it looked
But it began to rain
And the picture started to fade
The heart fell apart
The smiling boy was no longer smiling
And the hands no longer hold one another
The boy turned around
It was me
With tears in both our eyes
We looked at the drawing
Watched it fade away