08/15/2021
This is the poem I wrote when I was 19 that “Louder Than Words” is based on. You can read it in the book of course, but here’s a sneak peek!
THE CLOUD THAT RAINS TEARS
Breila Joy
9-8-96
Crying softly, as it pours down rain,
my tears are hidden so also my pain.
No one to help me climb out of despair,
‘cause no one has noticed, or no one has cared.
So i look up to the dark, wet clouds.
Their raindrops hide teardrops, but that shouldn’t be allowed.
‘Cause only the clouds can see when i cry,
as they hide from the world, my sadness; they lie.
Staring intently, i see in the cloud,
The shape of a girl whose head is bowed.
I look up higher to see the girl better.
The cloud just keeps raining, and my face just gets wetter.
But something inside me continues to say,
“Just look a bit closer; wipe the tears away.”
And in that moment my eyes see it clearly.
The girl in the cloud is not a cloud, merely,
but the face of my own, as she cries from the pain.
She is the one who’s making it rain.
She’s hiding on purpose the sorrows within.
Doesn’t she know she needs to let someone in?
‘Cause before He can help her to ease all her fears,
she’s got to reveal her sad reason for tears.
I look once again to the girl who is crying,
And i cry even more for the girl who’s not trying.
Staring, still, at the girl, in the cloud raining tears,
i quietly listen and suddenly hear.--
Someone behind her who’s watching the sky,
with caring words, sees her--the cloud passing by.
Now, i know in my heart that the girl’s not still crying,
‘cause the Father brought her out of the clouds that were lying,
and He eased all her pain with the hope that one day
we’ll be joined once again; He’ll take my pain, too, away.
Copyright © 2015 Xulon Press
