Looks Like Rain But Never Does

Looks like rain

But never does

Looks like one day

We’ll be experts on waiting

Since all we do

Is wait

A sky goes dark

A cloud appears

A rumble

A jerk

A jolt of something

But nothing happens

Nothing starts

Temperature drops

Then rises again

Predictions prove false

A stop-and-begin

But a beginning of what?

What begins now?

Someone opens a window

But the cold turns hot

A bird flies away

A calm settles

And then a tension appears

The cloth snaps

The line tugs

The fever spikes

Then nothing

Then nothing

And the expectation of something

Because nothing can’t

Go on forever

A pie gets baked

But not eaten

A movie gets put on

But not watched

A song is half-remembered

The chorus

And part of a verse

A woman gets dressed

Then sits

And waits

A woman forgets

What she meant to say

A woman is alone

And a car stops

Outside her house

And waits for her

To come out

It looks like rain

It looks like staying in weather

It looks like forgetting weather

It looks like leaving someone behind weather

But you don’t

You can’t

You never do

The last shoe drops

The party ends

The car won’t start

The light’s left on

In the middle of the day

Somebody’s not there

Who’s supposed to be there

It’s supposed to rain

But never does

A man sits on a porch

And the street

Doesn’t make a sound

The cracks open up

In the black, black street

Two people decide

That a marriage is over

Then fall in love

Again

A Sunday becomes a Sunday

And a Sunday

And a Sunday

And never anything

But a Sunday

The break goes dry

And nobody wonders

What anything means

For the next what you are

And the next who you're becoming
And the next to the next
To the next

It goes dark

And light

And dark for years

This is what you do

While you wait

For it to rain

But what do you do

When it looks like rain

But never does?

What do you do

While you’re waiting?

When at any minute

The sky will snap

And you won’t have to wait

Anymore?