Lost in the rain dance

I got lost in the rain dance 

Rather than the rain

I was caught up in the experience

But had nothing to gain

My whole of existence

Was wrapped in its splendor

Yet then I remembered

The reason for this

The dance 

The smooth kiss of love

All of it disguised

By the great overture

And the rain never came

The fog in my mind

Did find no moisture

At all

For the rain

Had long been spent

And now the desert

Of resentment settled in

How easily to be lost

In the mirage of it's making

The imagined oasis

Had no fact or basis 

No reason to exist

For all my efforts

Had been spent

On this one event

Now I repent me

And see the joy

In the simple rain

To but cool and cleanse 

The joy of another

Without any other

Expectation to fill

No need to thrill

Only the present

Tis more than enough

Yet I forgot the stuff 

Of what friendship

Is made

I forbade my heart

To look simply 

To that which is best 

And so lost it all

In my zest

Maybe again

On another approaching

Wind shall I find

Another in kind

But cautious

To not be lost

In the preparation

For there lies destruction

And desolation 

Simply to be

Love and love

Alone tis more

Than the greatest 

Of storms

Can weather 

Them all with

Only itself 

-Joshua Lee Foist