beyond the surface

A tin roof: rains musical companion.

It’s pitted, rusty surface, masked by a wintry sheen.

The still of the night shakes with a round of warm-up pings.

Puffs, the color of despair, purge themselves of the millions

of raindrops that once made them bloat.

The thrashing of the wind, the rattling of storm shutters;

together it creates a polyphony no man could ever perform.

What was once shaken, now acclimates to the world outside.

What was once a disturbance, now soothes with its sound solace.

Like most things in life we become attracted to that which disrupts our being, moving us in a way we never thought possible.

Just as the rain drops that stir in the night, those things too fade away into a void of resonance so dark it stings to listen for any drip of residue.

Baring battle scars of the changing seasons; the slanted surface patiently awaits another night.

A night where the sky will open and give to it everything that once made it whole.

A night to once again compose a symphony no man could ever write.