Rain
Tue, 24 January 2006, 4:17 pm by jadeiteIt’s quiet in the night, in the dark, in the after-light; the world is hushed and I’m alone but not lonely. I lie awake in my bed, and the only sound I hear is the whoop-whirr of the fan blades turning and spinning, cycling round but going nowhere.
Then the rain begins to fall.
It’s light at first, a pattering and smattering, a tapping on my window pane. Whispering and crackling - “Are you there? Do you hear?” - then as if incensed at my silence, the drops fall fatter and heavier and slap at the glass. Sullenly it growls and snaps outside the window - the thwarted wolf champing at a door closed and barred from him.
Thunder.
Lightning.
But I stay quiet and still as a hunted mouse; the boom and the crack don’t frighten me. My fingers smooth out the blanket, like a lover’s caress, and I drowse sleepily amidst the storm and the rain.
I wait it out with half-closed eyes as dreams and half-dreams chase themselves across my shuttered lids. The sound of the buffeting grows rhythmic as the rain thuds glumly down, the colors drifting blue and gray in the muted light.
And still I cannot sleep.
marvellous! i love this entry. not for the fact that you can’t sleep, but that it’s beautiful.
Haha thank you… chey, thought you’re so concerned for my lack of sleep :D