Five Minute Friday: Graceful

Graceful.

today I sat for two and a half hours in a sliver of sunlight streaming though the window, through the curtain. in silence.

thinking of Mariam, and calm.

waiting for fall, waiting at least for rain.

and now, it falls gracefully outside my window. drops on the glass, making the train tracks dark brown. I like how I can hear individual drops fall, the pattern of drops landing.

and thunder, finally.

thinking I would like to hear Mariam laugh, gut laughter, the kind that makes your belly ache.

graceful, and I think Mariam.
and where I was thinking of her, just today.
and how meeting her will be with me forever.

this rain.