Dark

Standing outside in the hard-falling rain,
I see you at the end of the alley.
Illuminate the velvet night, so dark,
Come with me out onto the urban streets.
Watch the mist fall in iridescent sheets.
The world awaits as you blindly see.

Why can't you see, oh why can you not see?
Is your mind washed out by overcast rain-
ing down, fading away in vivid sheets?
Come on out of that desolate alley,
Open your heart to these spirited streets.
You don't have to continue living dark.

It's hard to catch you leering in the dark.
I know there's someone you're longing to see.
I want you to pull him off of the streets,
And, cliche, kiss him in the pouring rain.
Emerge from the gloom of twilight alley,
Tangle yourself in passion's golden sheets.

Love will cascade in gentle satin sheets,
So turn to the light, away from the dark.
Take a different road, a new alley.
Now-all the sights that you suddenly see,
Let them enlighten you like falling rain.
Don't go down any unsuitable streets.

If you find yourself wandering those streets,
Think back to all that you felt in those sheets.
The feelings that drowned you like flooded rain,
Then transported you home, out of the dark.
So why did it take you so long to see-
Life is nothing but a winding alley?

Pave over all your old rocky alley-
s, start off fresh with new, unbroken streets.
See all that you can potentially see.
Unfold and color your wrinkled white sheets,
Illuminate the velvet night, so dark,
And happiness will fall on you like rain.

The mild rain will cleanse you so you can see,
Be caressed by the alley of these sheets.
It will take you in off of the dark streets.

-A.H.