Everything I Love

EVERYTHING I LOVE
It rained heavily yesterday

I complained about it, just like everybody else

But just like them, I love the rain

secretly, how it sounds

Like a hundred fingers

tapping gently on the roof

A hundred hands rocking me to sleep.

Today I heard the wind,

running happy through the trees

Outside my bedroom window,

And as it sped through bright green leaves

It sounded like the sea.