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on becoming mud
the rain was like fingers
and fingers like drums
in the night and alive
and alive and still young
and the rain was so gentle
and gentle was rough
when the looking and wanting
stopped being enough
the rain was like lightning
when the bottles grew dry
and it stopped being frightening
and we stopped asking why
the rain made her skin cold
her skin was like earth
they turned me to mud
and they gave me some worth
the rain was like hearbeats
stumbled drunk though french doors
up stairways like treetrunks
bitten fruit to our cores
the rain knew our weakness
gave us thirst to end hurt
and the thirst gave us courage
to learn or desert
and the rain was our friendship
in a wet august world
in the hands of the worthy
lost boys and found girls
oh, that rain felt like fingers
and fingers from new
from another dimension
coloured brave black and blue
that rain felt like fingers
and fingers like drums
beating always to endings
but the night was so young
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