Please stay for a bit and enjoy the thunder and rain, as the song "Send me the Rain" will play for you...
the umbrella
it rained on tuesday
washed the blues from my jeans
and made me thirsty for another taste of heaven
hungry for breakfast
i settled for the smell of yesterday
and hoped for the fresh aroma of tomorrow
my only conversation
was born in a grumbling belly
filled with bubbles of emptiness and pain
i discovered that hope collapses and folds
like a cheaply made umbrella
annexed by harshly changing winds
and i wondered if i would die
on a tuesday blessed with rain
and if the umbrella would hold up
one last time
it rained on tuesday
washed the blues from my jeans
and made me thirsty for another taste of heaven
hungry for breakfast
i settled for the smell of yesterday
and hoped for the fresh aroma of tomorrow
my only conversation
was born in a grumbling belly
filled with bubbles of emptiness and pain
i discovered that hope collapses and folds
like a cheaply made umbrella
annexed by harshly changing winds
and i wondered if i would die
on a tuesday blessed with rain
and if the umbrella would hold up
one last time
~tolbert~