Silver Strands

Slate gray streets made even darker by cutting raindrops Umbrellas popping up everywhere, people seeking shelter But I stayed put, wanting to get drained with the rain, then I hear this tinkling voice that says, “Don’t you just love it when it rains?!” I look at her wearily and her eyes actually gleam with laughter Oh geez, this lady was my total opposite. I was brooding, she was brimming. I power-up my go away vibes, but she was like a darned magnet… Was I the ferromagnetic one, or was she? She gushed on the metaphor of rain in her life, and I didn’t feel like drowning. Listening to her amidst the onslaught was so refreshing, making me thirstier… There we were, two drenched souls, sitting on the pavement, chatting up a storm. Of all her descriptions of rain, one in particular stood out for me… Pearl drops strung on silver strands … She said, “Rain for me would be silver strands streaking an otherwise somber sky… pearl drops strung on silver strands, broken by the heavens to share with us. See how precious it is?” Then she continued on with the metaphor for pearls… Her words felt like windshield wipers to me, and I could see clearly now By then, the rains had softened, and a lone pearl drop landed on her eyelashes -that made me look closer at her eyes… her beautiful, wise, yet cloudy eyes… I have never looked at rain the same way since then. For Andrea's and Susan's Silver Strands contest