Winters Reign

A day of reckoning is upon us Winds that pick and toss rain that pelts and soaks Pick up your armor, release the shields Only to have it ripped from your grasp Alone you wander through the wreckage Lost souls twinned in the feat of battle Feel the thunder smash into the land As the heavens let loose another incursion Splatter goes your only hopes As you hold your hand up to catch the drizzle Covered, head to toe in the past, future, the present Feel the hurt that we have devastated Wash away in the downpour The earth quenched from another conflict As if the clouds have not had enough They continue their downward spiral But alas, there is an opening The foretold eye, an empty chasm Where the grass streaks green The trees sway from releasing their chains of water Spring can see once again For the colors that stripe the atmosphere Show the end of this abhorrent misery The rain will come again, you know so But for now, bask in the sunlit circle For it will be gone soon, To the monsoon