When the Rain Comes

When the rain comes in blunt despair With swords of Thor's thunderous wield The clouds drape darkness everywhere As light surrendered, as hope kneeled Where desolated gloom revealed A drab landscape that once was fair Limbs barren in deserted fields When the rain comes in blunt despair Drowning sunsets in silver flares Tomorrow's rainbows lie concealed In mazes of charcoal nightmares With swords of Thor's thunderous wield This is where all your heroes yield To stars laden in disrepair Where souls sink, murky and congealed The clouds drape darkness everywhere When suns are lost and moons are rare The mornings cut apart and peeled The sky is strangely unaware As light surrendered, as hope kneeled When shelter remains unrevealed And the horizon appears bare Allow me to become your shield Against the snare of sharpened air When the rain comes 3/11/23