The Rain

By Christina Yan

Posted on September 1, 2024

Cover Image Title: Longwoods Gardens, 2024.

Cover Image By: Christina Yan

Medium: Digital Photograph

Classification: Photograph

Year: 2024

Torrential rain, it's a cacophony of wails.

A downpour of poor, dull bullets,

From heaven's snipers, perhaps godly in their aim,

but fretfully not in their efficacy.

There was something enchanting about rain.

Tiny droplets that pitters and pats.

Against a window, it wallops and thrashes.

Like the tears of a mourning cloud.

There was something beautiful about rain.

Like every life that met its end, it pitters and it pats.

Leaving only the faint scent of petrichor,

For a new morning’s birth.

Crossing down in songs of rain,

Are the lore of lives now above.

Where the souls stride in neither heaven nor hell,

But in the midst of a nebulous haze.

Crossing down in the tongue of rain.

Are the melancholic tales of life.

In the forgotten caterwauls of rain,

Lies unheard stories waiting to be told.

For every empty space is there light,

Like how every cloud carries specks of rain.

Description:

This poem uses the rain as an allegory for life. Although life has its highs and lows, the mundane, borderline melancholic days are just as meaningful. I chose rain as the grounding metaphor for its unique qualities in regular life: its regularity as a weather pattern for most; the unpredictability of singular raindrops, which is a parallel to individual beings; and, rain's reputation as a symbol of life and revitalization.

[Writing Editor: Anonymous]

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