So Lucky as I

Was the lightning woke me up. Great flash but no sound, dream of blackness then instant bright. Walk to the car and no umbrella means I forwent bathing. Only had one change of clothes anyhow. Drove through rain thick and thin that I might see you. Twenty, sometimes thirty under when I couldn't see. Busted wipers only whisk away so much, broken air kept the mugginess alive. Saw men not so lucky as I on the side of the road, never saw so many flashes. I had places to be. I had your side. And yet a healthy mixture of clouds and blue. Odd, that so much rain should bring so sunny a day.

You just looked in that opened door. Just stood there. Scanned for expression, a story, but I got nothing in ways of that. Walked away without shutting the door, so in that way you let me in. Thought we could share a meal, but you'd eaten. Thought we could have us a talk, but you weren't much up for conversation. Thought we might end up talking to the dawn, words getting longer, beds anywhere, like we used to. But you climbed into your regular bed, even let me do the same. Faced opposite sides, only breathed, no words spoken. And all of this time rain, rain, rain. Was the thunder put me to sleep.