I Dance in the Rain

My heart feels bleak

And heavy with the growing pain

Of doubt and failure

The many swords lodged in my chest

I trudge in the rain

 

My mind all too susceptible

To the opinions of other people

As their words clutter my head

I can no longer concentrate as

I stumble in the rain

 

Now it is finally shattered

Everything that I’ve done

To come this far on this

Unpaved road to nowhere

I collapse in the rain

 

My spirit is fatigued

From the tempest that ravaged

And tore through my desires

Of hope and happiness as

I cry in the rain

 

For what is the point

Why should I press on

If I’m the only working ant

Striving for this particular leaf

I ponder in the rain

 

I stare back at the sky

The rain still bombards me

Warm tears having now mixed

With the cold wetness on my face as I

Lie still in the rain

 

A sunbeam of light

Breaks loose of the confines

Of the melancholy sky

And casts down upon me

I remember in the rain

 

The reason why I opted this journey

Of self-discovery and self-empowerment

For you see “The obstacle is the way”

A grand Zen saying that is as

I stand up in the rain

 

One must block out all delusion

And all created mirage

Of the doubt that many will

Try to capsize your ship with

I smile in the rain

 

I turn back around

To the unfinished path before me

I shall continue slashing through the vines

And see this journey through till the end as

I dance in the rain.

Author's Note

based off one of my favorite quotes, "The obstacle is the way" Another poem that just sort of came to me.