Please Let it Stop!

My life had become gray and forbidding

I felt powerless, impotent, incapacitated

sidelined by the darkness swirling around

binding my ankles to eroding earth

I tried to wrench the curtain of angst

from my fogged and desolate vision, impaired

by slanting rain drumming my body

leaving deep pock marks of pain

mistakes in judgment tying me to shadows

lightning lacerations reviving my agony

sloshing rain flooding and drowning my spirit

“Please,” I begged frantically seeking arid solution,

“move aside and let the sunshine chase away

the storms of my dreary past letting joy

filter in through the clouds once again

enlightening hope for a rosier future.”