Rain

Rain on the rooftop and a sad afternoon

Quiets the trees with its sound

As the rain washes clean, the feelings unseen

And quenches the root underground

It collects in the gutters, they're choked with debris

From last year's season of change

Flows down the spout like a river of doubt

That's so long been polluting the veins

Coffee and newsprint and afternoon rains

Always makes me think of you

But here we are now, with no idea how

To return to the way we knew

The weight pulls it down and the histories drown

In the ocean of lies and deceit

Now the rain's overflow, leaves us nowhere to go

And the memories run out in the street