Down Pour

Is it rain or is it blood

Trickling down my wrist

At this time of night

I can't tell

Whether these are

Tears

Or

Raindrops

Rolling down my cheeks

I have felt

Complete destruction

And I have felt

Total demise

But the thing that

Courses through my veins

This evening

Is neither

Yet

Feels so similar

Could it be destruction's cousin

Or

Demise's tortured kin

Could this thing

Rushing through

My body

Be

Hate

The thing

That fuels the fire

Within my soul

What keeps me strong

During nights like this

When the sky is dark

The world is cold

And my heart is sore

The hate

That consumes me

Controls me

And

Smothers me

Is all I have left

In this life

I live so drearily

And on this night

As the rain

Pours down

And

The sky

Above me screams

In rage

I sit

Alone

On the curb

Holding my head

In my hands

With

The rain

Or

The blood

Trickling down my wrist

And

The tears

Or

The raindrops

Rolling down my cheeks

-GE