Chase Raindrops No More

I’d fallen in love with my own innocence, With the memory of all I had been With the prospect of all that I could become. And she was much like a raindrop, Akin to fire, and waters swift And for a space I was her ocean And as a raindrop to an ocean, She lost herself in me and I in her. But come the rainbow, To the heavens she returned From where her eyes might feast On all the world unbound. And from that distance even an ocean, May seem but a shallow pool, nay A puddle, depthless and dirty. And from that distance even a mountain, May seem but a little more than, sand upon sand, And from the rainbow, she saw the sunlight, And sunlight fell upon distant shores, And glimmering with golden fire New waters shimmering, filled her eyes, And I, her ocean, who now dwelt in shadow, Was lost to her heart. And from the rainbow, her heart in wonder, Was lost to me, forever. And only now are my eyes finally open, Never an ocean, only a puddle, And come the sun, the golden sun, I shall fade away and be no more, I shall quietly pass, and chase raindrops no more. Carlos 23/08/01