RAIN INTO YOU

RAIN INTO YOU

There remains little moisture
Sting of years keeps drying me
There's no turning back the
Hands of today.

I flow over the edge
My mind returns before I
Fade into shadow, before
I rain into you.

Now on the lettered keys,
I create my piano.  Though the words
The sound resolute will not
Slow the ghost to be.

I want to follow, I wish
To peer into that
Corner of a boy and preserve the man
Which is not yet.  To say
"Attempt no rescue."

I fear too late have I found the softness
Newly cupped in hands.  You hold though
I still drip to ground becoming
A shadow
Until dry...where I

Rain into you.