Our Signature of Rain

OUR SIGNATURE OF RAIN (for you Arlene, my True Love— Valentine’s Day 2017) Our signature is of the rain it rained on our wedding day relentless it rolled off new love and on through all our events the heavens opened and poured on us soaked again at a Foxboro Patriots’ game and Eagles Concert were fogged in moving arm in arm on fun Bar Harbor streets and shops we shelved time a few days free as antique memories’ treasures just us, more precious with age as newlyweds we went out then stepped into an unwritten history abandoned all smooth perfects and fought for rough agreements like how a constant sun oppresses how a rainy day cozies us inward we sought each other’s soft spots preferred home cooking and wine by the preferred sea of possibility in time we recognized the need for this ingredient of rain to grow we learned to see each other’s lacks to fill in cracks that made us strong each strength firmed each weakness so merged differences to live as we now age is sweeping swift time away with us too Dear goes an age where much was claimed yet nothing owned what I’ll remember most of our lives is love and work and music in the rain Charles Eastland