the rain

It was about nine o’clock in the morning and the rain continue to fall… it was pouring since the night before …I ran to work late last night yet it was considerably too early for my shift … I needed to get to the workplace before it gets too cold … the shift has ended now I must walk home again … the rain does not seem to end its task not another one whole day.

I pulled on my hood and tried to cover my head, my hands were getting stiff as the wind turned chilly cold. It was winter and here I was, under the rain …last night my workmate told me … this is the time of the season when the cold goes into you and not around you … wear something appropriate against the cold …

Playing under the rain is one of the fond memories I have in childhood… it brought back cherished memories with my granny. In childhood I used to sweat too much and grew rashes that I usually went around with my cotton sleeveless and undies. every time the rain comes I would rushed outside jumping and enjoying the raindrops .

Granny would call out to me … come inside and dry yourself … hear the thunder and know that something is wrong up above … hide yourself … the angels are taking pictures of naughty tots down on earth … flashes of lightning are from heaven’s camera and they are taking photographs.

Those lines surely make no sense to me now, but the essence of the effort to convince me to get myself off the cold clearly meant some tender loving care. Now there is no more croaking voice to call on my senses … from the long graveyard shift I would rather keep myself dry and warm but I am left with no choice … I have to walk home under the chilly winter frost.


Thoughts raised with self pity inside my head…oh I am just depressed I tried to tell myself. It felt too odd and the tears simply fell. I missed my grandma … though she died a very long time ago … looking around me I realized I am left with nobody … no one cares and I must survive with the fact that I am alone. I remembered a friend … oh he was extremely kind when he needed something … now he is gone when everything was done.