I just want it to rain
I want to be left alone
Except for the sound of rain 
On blurry rain strewn window panes

I’m sick and tired of the 24/7 news cycles
It’s not new, news
It’s the same fucked up repetitive bullshit
Over and over
People killing people
Children starving
Bombs exploding
Turning buildings and lives into rubble 
Where people
Once walked their dogs
Lived
Proudly called such misery
home?
Where the lost innocence of a child
Is excused as collateral damage
What a cruel world

Listen
The billionaires and politicians
They don’t give a shit about you
They’d just as soon
Grind your bones into dust
And blow your remains into the void 

I just want it to rain
I want to be left alone
Perfectly
Quiete 
But for the sound
The sound of rain
The sound poetry makes
As silent prayers fill puddles
With tears