When you hear the raindrops fall

As though the sky is weeping

The peaceful calm of the night

Is right there for the reaping.

Do you gaze out into the darkness

Feeling like you're all alone?

Watch the rivulets down the pane

Hear the oak trees moan?

Do you retreat into your mind,

Run through all your thoughts?

Examine the life you live,

And try to connect the dots?

Do you finally fall into slumber

On your face a peaceful smile.

Forgetting all your worries

Just for a little while.

And when you wake in the morning,

Do you see the sunrise?

Sit up in bed, look out,

And open your eyes?

Do you arise from your bed

All ready to go on?

Are you looking forward to the day?

Do you feel reborn?

Or does something plague you

Day by passing day?

Those dark thoughts cast their shadows

And you can't keep them at bay.

Those raindrops you hear falling

Remind you of tears shed.

You try so hard it hurts

But can't get them out of your head.

Those oak trees moan without

And within your heart does too.

Water runs down the windowpane

As tears on your face do.

You retreat into your mind

But peace you look for, you can't find.

All you think of is you

Caught in that daily grind.

A fitful sleep you enter

Hours full of nightmares.

A large shadow flickering in the candlelight

A red eye that glares.

Morning comes and with it light

Softly grazing your face.

But this light, oh it does not reach

Into that deep dark place.

So morning comes and morning goes

And a day passes as such.

You move around, you eat, you work

But you can't bring yourself to care of much.

What life is this

If it is life this way?

Why not bring light to dark

Find meaning in the day?