It rained today. You could tell it was coming by the way it smelled and the way the trees were swaying back and fourth.
It poured.
It was dark and yet so beautiful. One cloud seemed isolated from the storm, it was this vague color of peach. The kind you might see in a fairytale book. It looked like a kingdom in the sky, looking down upon the darkness the rain had brought.
I watched it splatter, it looked exactly like it did when I would watch it at the lake back home. It looked like a dance of nature, and I danced along side it trying to keep up. Despite the cold that the rain brought, I still felt the warmth of the ground beneath me. It was peaceful and for a moment the rain fell in slow motion.
Like it always is for me, when the first drops hit the ground. It's the only thing I hear, and it's all happening slower than it should.
It washes everything away, even if just for a little while. It makes all the things that make me feel the slightest bit scared, or insecure, or angered go away.
It makes me feel okay with the world. Nothing does that for me anymore.
Then a butterfly flew by, and I smiled. And for a moment I was okay with the world, it was beautiful.