Escape Into the Rain

wrote after ending my fist marriage. Based on the night I became a survivor.

Cold hard rain cuts into my skin,
nightgown clinging like a second sin.
Heartbeat pounding in the empty street,
bare feet bleeding on the concrete.
Every breath a warning in my chest,
every shadow whispering the rest—
run now, don’t look back, don’t break,
this is the moment everything shakes.

I hear him calling through the storm,
a voice I used to trust, now torn.
The monster wearing the face I knew—
I’m running from the truth.

So I escape into the rain,
let it wash away the pain.
Lightning screaming through my veins,
I won’t be his ghost again.
Through the darkness, through the fear,
I’m still breathing, I’m still here.
Every step, I break the chain—
I escape into the rain.

Two years lost inside a quiet hell,
every secret I was forced to tell.
Phone calls, questions, tightening walls,
love collapsing into something raw.
He moved me every time I bloomed,
kept me lonely, kept me doomed.
But tonight I’m tearing through the dark,
following the flicker of a spark.

His footsteps echo in my mind,
but I’m done being confined.
The storm becomes my shield tonight—
I’m running for my life.

So I escape into the rain,
let it wash away the pain.
Lightning screaming through my veins,
I won’t be his ghost again.
Through the darkness, through the fear,
I’m still breathing, I’m still here.
Every step, I break the chain—
I escape into the rain.

Headlights blur, the world spins fast,
I’m falling forward, free at last.
A voice says, “You’re safe now, don’t you fade,”
and the night begins to slip away.
The storm can’t drown the truth I’ve found—
I’m stronger than the fear that kept me bound.

So I escape into the rain,
let it wash away the pain.
Lightning screaming through my veins,
I won’t be his ghost again.
Through the darkness, through the fear,
I’m still breathing, I’m still here.
Every step, I break the chain—
I escaped into the rain.