Somehow Somber

May 3, 2013 at 1:25 pm · Filed under Dark Side, Mostly fiction, Poems, Sometimes it just hurts ·Tagged dark clouds, death, glint, grief, lazy, perspective, rain, somber, static, trinket

It’s Friday, and Kellie Elmore finally posted the prompt for this week’s Free Write Friday. She thought maybe we could write something using the following words: lazy – rain – perspective – glint – somber – trinket – static. I gave it a shot.

Somehow Somber

 I sat there, shoulders slumped

Body trembling, heart aching

Tears flowing steadily

Like maybe they’d never stop

 

A single dark cloud

Small and somehow somber

Moved slowly down the street

Coming toward me

 

As it passed slowly by

A lazy rain—like a shower turned on real low

Fell softly from its black belly

Sounding like static on a radio

As it hit the hot asphalt

 

From my current perspective

It was as though someone

Had bumped the dial

On the old Buick’s radio… or my life

Knocking it between stations

 

I reached up and lightly touched

The trinket hanging by a chain

From the rearview mirror

 

Then… when the little cloud was past

And the sun came out

The tiny silver cross sparked

A quick glint of dazzling light

As it slowly turned

 

I miss her so much

 

Copyright © 2013 C Mashburn

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