When It Rains

It rained today
And I thought of you
I always think of you
When it rains
I remembered when we first met
How with little fanfare
You came into my life
Not knowing your beautiful blue eyes
Would soon peer into my soul
Piercing it with your sweet love
What I look forward to
Is all the rainy afternoons we will share
When we are both old and wrinkly
And we will open the windows
So we can smell the rain on the dry earth
And play a quiet Frank Sinatra song
And argue over card games
Sipping at our hot cocoa
Until we are groggy enough to take a nap
And we will lay our old creaky bodies
Down on our old creaky bed
And before I nod off
I will kiss your cheek
And still adore those beautiful blue eyes
That many years before
Looked into my soul
It rained today
And I thought of you
I always think of you
When it rains

- Denise Cooper Smith