but like a body breaking,
like something holding on for too long
dust rises like ghosts startled awake,
and the earth opens her mouth
Just the raw writhing of water finding cracks,
finding every place that aches or crumbles or waits.
The rain doesn’t ask permission.
It doesn’t care where it falls—
forest, rooftop, desert, skin.
It pounds against leaves as if to punish them
for turning their faces away,
fills the throats of rivers
until they choke on their own rushing,
slides down windowpanes like tears
There is no tenderness in this.
This is about gravity and surrender,
the weight of billions of tiny impacts
stripping the world bare.
And something in you loosens—
unraveling in the rhythm,
in the relentless pounding that reminds you of your own breaking,
of the times you couldn’t stop falling.
letting it drench everything you thought was safe.
Maybe this is what healing feels like:
blurry vision as everything spills.
it leaves something you didn’t know you were—