Rain Continues to Pour

Today (June 2012), Florida is being battered by a tropical storm named Debby. The wildfires in Colorado, Utah and other Rocky Mountain states need a storm like Debby a hell-uv-a lot more than the Florida swampland this year.

I’m in Central Florida, and we are being drowned. Not as bad as some, true, but worse than others. So, as I sit watching the trees bend to near-breaking in the gusts, and the rain pelt my windows with near-shatter impact, I envision the weekend. That’s when the weather folks say the storm should be subsiding.

We’ll see.

I had special fun with this because I’ve written it with a convoluted cadence, meter be damned! I wanted to drive everyone else as crazy as I feel!

4          Weather charts warn

4          this awful storm

9          will be beating us for a while.

5          But if we hold fast

5          the system should pass,

9          then the sun on us it will smile!

6          Rain continues to pour,

6          tries to come through the door.

9          Our pool can hold no more water.

7          So when the sun it breaks through,

7          I will expect to see you

9          as the temps grow hotter and hotter.

6          In the sun we will play.

6          We’ll enjoy the whole day,

9          with PBR to Dom Pérignon.

5          Then the sun will set,

5          with swimsuits still wet.

9          I understand, you have to move on.

4          But I’ll stay here,

4          with my cold beer,

9          to celebrate this storm being gone!