Addition: Love Like a Raging Raindrop

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To Love Like a Raging Raindrop

 

The storm arose 

And crossed the skies;

Gun metal gray clouds, 

The sun's demise.

 

The rain began

In gentle lines

Caressing Earth

Sweet kiss, divine.

 

Increased in strength's

Intensity,it showered

Down, near' like a sea.

 

Above and all

Around about,

The skies were

Opened like a spout.

 

It fell so hard

I could not see;

The drenching rain,

Engulfing me.

 

Wash over me With your pelting rain,

Your liquid silver dew;

Wash over me and through me,

And leave me clean and cool.

 

Wash through me with your silver shots

And claim me for your own;

Then strip the shards of self away

And for my lack atone.

 

I gladly yield myself to you

Baptize me in your rain;

And wash away all evidence

Of self's despair and pain.

 

To you I yield, to you alone

From now throughout all time;

Relinquishing what lies behind:

Now clothed in the sublime.

 

 

Diane Baugh