Ode to a Rainy Day After Day

Rain keeps falling

Drizzling, dripping

Pattering upon my pane

Falling, falling

Ever falling

Gray and humid

Comes the rain

Days go past

Precipitation

Thrums and hums

And drums and numbs

I’m lost in aimless

Cogitation

Reason to the rain succumbs

Drops assault the ground

Relentless

Days become a week

Eventless

Soporific

Moist and soggy

Saturated

Dull and doggy

Dank and dreary

Wet and smeary

Cold and clammy

This? Miami?

Where’s the sun?

Christ! It’s December!

Yet the rain

Keeps falling down

Has it been a week already

That this rain’s been falling steady?

Trickling on without improvement

For some wicked God’s amusement

Show’ring on and on and on

Oh cease, I say

Anon, anon

Joints are creaky

And rheumatic

Water penetrates

My attic

Life’s become

So stark and static

Think I’m going to

Build an ark

Lord, I hope the time is nearing

When the sun will be appearing

And the clouds commence to clearing

And the atmosphere stops drearing

But I must confess I’m fearing

That this rain

Will linger on

And on and on

And on and on