Cloudburst

Tears in my soul

Welling up 

like an ocean

At high tide

Engulfing my heart

In an avalanche

Of emotions

Submerging me

In a deluge 

Of feelings

Flooding my mind

Drowning all sense

But the dam

Of reason

Holds back 

the torrent

Till it bursts
in an

Outpouring

Of grief

Drenched, 

I let myself

Be swept away

By a raging

River in spate

Which spends itself

In a surge of rapids

Until I float

On the calm
Waters of peace


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