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Falling from the Same Sky

August 25, 2013
By Triss. BRONZE, Tifton, Georgia
Triss. BRONZE, Tifton, Georgia
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.&quot; -Robert Frost<br /> <br /> &quot;You are so much sunshine in every square inch.&quot; -Walt Whitman<br /> <br /> &quot;Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.&quot; -Rainer Maria Rilke


Raindrops blur my view of the city through the dirty window.
I wonder how it would feel to be one of them,
how it would feel to slide down a window pane,
or fall into the salty ocean in the middle of a storm,
or plop down onto someone's head,
wetting their hair so that it's matted to their skin.

But then I realize,
I am a raindrop of sorts.
I am one of many,
and there are certainly others like me.
Looking out of their city windows,
looking out at the blurred lights and wet pavement,
wondering how it would feel to be a raindrop.

We're all just raindrops falling from the same dark sky.


The author's comments:
I was tucked away in my bedroom on a rainy day when inspiration for this particular piece uncovered its lovely, and always welcome, unyielding need for me to make it come alive by scribbling it down onto a sheet of paper.

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