The rain still falls

**Waylander** · 16th September 2005, 01:13

Alone and solitary in the dark depths of night, with only the stars for company.

The empty sound of the wind blowing.

A dark river of asphalt slitting the earth.

A distant sound of a mechanical beast approaching,

Deep rumble growing louder as the beast nears.

It comes into view with a single blinding eye illuminating all before it.

A single rider sits on the beast back, his mind full of chaos.

With a slight flick of his wrist the beast launches to a higher speed.

Rain falls, lightly at first ignored by the rider, beast and road alike.

A series of bends in the river of the road.

The rider rides through seeming to ignore the turns yet the beast nimbly maneuvers,

Stirring up dust into the air, leaning into each turn.

The rain falls harder, the rider accelerates the beast again riding faster and faster as the rain falls.

His mind begins to clear, he rides faster and faster.

Thoughts leave the riders mind as he slowly becomes one with machine and road.

Vanishing around another bend. The roar of the machine beast quickly fades.

Silence, the road is alone once more with the stars.

But the rain still falls for the rider.

**Gremlin** · 16th September 2005, 01:19

That yours?? You managed that drunk (I assume this based on the time and randomness). Not bloody bad at all.

**RiderInBlack** · 16th September 2005, 07:12

Yep, just another romantic rainy night, riding the GC

**Storm** · 16th September 2005, 07:21

Not a bad effort at all for an early hours effort. Might want to submit it to bike magazines and get rich and famous

**Waylander** · 16th September 2005, 12:38

Yes it's mine, no I wasn't drunk, no it's not about the GC and don't really care if it gets published.

And SM as far as I'm concerned... I don't even care anymore. you want to mock me and insult me go right ahead. I don't give a shit.

**mstriumph** · 16th September 2005, 12:48

reminds me of places/people i've been ....

evocative

...... thanks for sharing

**Hitcher** · 16th September 2005, 13:18

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness,--
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

**Hitcher** · 16th September 2005, 13:24

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

**Hitcher** · 16th September 2005, 13:24

Take the BLUE pill, Hitcher...

**mstriumph** · 16th September 2005, 14:10

Despair - the soul's dark
Night - seek comfort there, looking
Forward to the dawn.

erm........ obviously not THAT blue pill, mr hitcher sir .....

**Hitcher** · 16th September 2005, 14:55

Originally Posted by mstriumph

Despair - the soul's dark
Night - seek comfort there, looking
Forward to the dawn.

Almost a Haiku...

**jrandom** · 16th September 2005, 14:58

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Almost a Haiku...

Almost a haiku?
Not quite. Too broken, too gauche;
Keep practising, miss.

**mstriumph** · 16th September 2005, 16:43

Originally Posted by Fish

Almost a haiku?
Not quite. Too broken, too gauche;
Keep practising, miss.

thank you
i thought so too
[although the breaks were meant to be --- ambiguous]
*blames it on being left-handed*

**Waylander** · 22nd September 2005, 05:33

Darkness…
So pure not a single ray of light can find it’s way to me.
How long have I soaked in this darkness?
Eternity?
Though at times I think just a moment.

I feel nothing, as though there were nothing, and I am floating in it.
I have preserved my sanity… have I not?
Or did I lose it somewhere…

And yet, in this darkness and its fantasies,
One thing is still clear in my mind,
That alone, like lightning splitting through the darkness.
She appears so vividly in my mind.

Over and over again it swells and sinks like the waves of a tsunami,
Hatred, friendship, jealousy, indignation, emptiness, love, sorrow.
They all come together in a single great storm,
Driving a stake through my mind holding my consciousness together.

The one who cast me into this darkness,
She is now my anchor.
This woman who’s life was once, in my hands.
When did I fall under your control?

I see you now, radiating so brilliantly it blinds me.
My Hatred, my friendship, my jealousy and indignation. My emptiness and sorrow and....
Love?
All within the single burning consciousness of desire.
Forever to go, unnoticed.