Even if I had opened the umbrella,
I was meant to get drenched.
The way
Even if you had stayed
You were still going to leave.
I remember
I kept looking at the sky that day
As if someone up there
Might try to stop us.
But no one did.
There was another rain
I was trying to hide,
The one inside me
That kept rising to my eyes,
Without asking....
I could have turned around
Looked at you one last time...
But I didn't.....
I was afraid,
What if you were still there,
And I couldn't walk away.
Anyway
In that kind of rain
You didn't really see anything.
Not faces...
Not intentions...
Not the moments....
That once felt real.
You just feel the wetness
And the cold
Slowly getting inside you
Truth is
It wasn't really raining,
It was you leaving,
And me
Learning how to drown.
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