Kiss the rain

It started off
so soft and bright
no attachments
no chance it would die.

we held hands
we spent time
we made memories
everything seemed fine.

the sky felt just a little bit bluer
worries seemed
just a little bit fewer

and tenderness was all we knew
and sweetness
was all that we could do
and carelessness
and happiness was too.

you think of him
and he thinks of you
but even then, the picture
is slipping away from view.

when you walked away
it hurt so bad
i couldn't feel happy
i couldn't feel sad

but its okay
i grew;
i healed, but i
still think about you

every time i do its like
spring again in my heart.
like the first time you walked into my life
the first time i wished on a star.

in the beginning you make a wish
and you forget about the past.
no one thinks about the end
or how long that it will last.

don't worry about me
I'll be just fine
just keep up with yourself
and I'll hold my head high.

and i kiss the rain,
it makes me feel so small
dancing out the pain
or listening to it fall.

or that time when you held me so close
and you kissed me so soft
that the world wouldn't know
and i closed my eyes
and i opened my heart
and i felt every raindrop,
every fall.

I'll always love you
you took away my pride
you loved me, you listened
you gave back my life.

you made me realize how much I'd been missing
by regretting and hating
i wasn't forgiving

and i was making all of my old mistakes
over and over again.
i was following roads
that were broken and cold.

and no matter what I'll have no regrets
I'll admit to everyone that i loved you
and I'll look back on the times
with an unconscious smile
and a glint of sad in my eyes
and i might even think of it all for a while

you'll always be with me
you're everything i see
you'll be in my heart
in my smile, or my dreams

and sometimes in my wildest nights
i hear so many sounds
the sound of your voice like the rain
that years cannot wear out.

is it you wrapping so softly on my door?
no its the rain
outside it does pore.

rain, please be gentle
and just patter on the rooftop
just tap on all the windows
just keep falling on the boulevards

but please don't be too thunderous tonight
for the children are all sleeping.
beneath each blanket till they wake,
each one inside is dreaming.