we know that rain’s a healthy thing,
but yet, it seems a barrier
to many things we want to do;
so we become a tarrier
just waiting for the rain to cease –
although its sound may bring some peace –
we want it to be through —

we’ve known the rain since childhood,
it comes and goes as rain’s inclined;
but yet, we often will complain,
and in these haggard moments find
some solace in the strange belief
that rain just comes to give us grief
and storms to cause us pain

regardless of its frequency,
we tend to take rain
personally