We Are the Normal Ones: Memoirs of a Fallen Human

Rain

The clouds outside look gloomy.
Gloomy.
What does that even mean?
Let's look it up. Let's see.
Webster's dictionary says it means "not hopeful", "causing feelings of sadness".
Well, way to judge their emotional status.
Even if the clouds were feeling sad, they seem to have accepted it.
Satisfied with their circumstances.
See, they aren't even throwing a fit.
They aren't blowing all over the place, having an attitude that disrupts time and space.
It isn't screaming with the thunder that makes a two year olds tantrum look like a trip to the candy store.
They are just sad.
Smiles costs money and their happiness is poor.
But another word they use in the dictionary is "depressed".
And sometimes those depressed clouds feel hopeless.
They feel like they are a bother to the lover of summer.
To the ones who sneeze at the change of heat waves to the cold, cold breeze.
The ones who prefer ice coffee over hot coffee.
People who curse the clouds for ruining their day. Because a great day begins with sunshine and blue skies.
Those clouds swell up and the breeze picks up.
People pray for it not to rain because that day "just can't get any worse".
So the clouds hold it's tears and try to move along quickly because ones can't stand the sight of it.
But that's fine. They won't argue with that.
They actually agree.. To the three hundred and sixtieth degree. 
Then the sky peaks through and shoves over the clouds. They are gone and you haven't seen them in a while...

Do you understand these words now?
See what you did to the cloud?
Who came to your mind as I read this out loud?
Did you think of me? Because my mind is corrupt?
Did you think of that one person you knew who rarely showed up?
Or that person who always wear long sleeves to hide what's underneath?
That lonely person who stuck headphones in his ear to pretend not be here...
They slip away, they turn to dust.
The vapor of their gloom you ducked just because it caused YOUR smile to rust..
Rain was that cloud's tears.
And now they aren't here.
They were the cloud you saw swell up but didn't show a single sign of their pain.
All because you threatened that cloud not to rain.