The Sunshine and the Rain

She loved the sunshine

The way it played on the waves

How it brightened everything

Adding new highlights to colours

It's warming light

Transforming a grey and dismal day

But the rain

The rain always came

Dark storm clouds would hide

Her precious sunlight

And darkness reigned

Each raindrop saturated,

Filled with sun-subduing shadow

And in the rain

She forgot the sunlight

Its light seemed far away

She could not feel it's warmth

She could only see the shadows

Cast on all that once shined bright

And inside, the light grew dim

Storm clouds gathered inside her soul

As the rain hammered down around her

But something changed

For the sunlight would not be held back

Through the dark, frosted glass bowl of the heavens

Broke a shard of sunlight

A ray of brightest day shone through

And in the rain, the light was transformed

It became more beautiful

More vivid

Deeper and more stunning than before

Beneath the shroud of the storm

The light was transformed within the rain

Darkest droplets were lit up

And split into a million colours

Their shadows chased away

The light which had seemed so beautiful

Was transformed within the storm

And so beautiful was the sight

That tears flowed fierce and free

Down her rain-drenched face

Each teardrop holding

A shining facet of the light's transformed ray

For in the rain

And deep within the storm

The light was shown in all its prismatic splendour

Greater and more beautiful

And she wept,

Knowing greater beauty than ever before