I find the world the most beautiful when it rains And I do not mean light summer drizzles with soft cotton clouds I mean earth destroying claps of thunder I find the world the most beautiful when it pours When the sky is ballpoint pen navy and the clouds onx stones The worlds utterly breathtaking when the cosmos seem to rumble and tremor The world is so gorgeous when the wind whips across skin like barbed wire tearing across the surface I am not a religious person but the closest I’ve come to believing in god is standing in the middle of his storm Palms turned to the sky drowning in his salvation singing praises of hallelujah Hallelujah thank you lord The closets I’ve come to feeling religion is seeing the tempest being realesed like a holy beast for the swell of rain is not gods tears It’s gods anguish Sputtering out in the form of bone splintering white-hot static Angels have often been portrayed as soft wispy creatures But they are really the children of typhoons Weeping their fat chilling tears into the soil For they are crying for our sins The haunting call of ***** music ripping through their vocal chords raining onto the pavement These rain drop bullets are not signs of gods sadness They are signs of gods wrath Tearing up the earth like a war zone Punishing us for our misdeeds In these times god is reducing us back to the simple creatures that we are Because not even humans can control his vexations We in these moments are brought back down to our knees in prayer Our petty ‘Forgive me father”s slipping down our tongue like water droplets Pleading begging screaming out over the crackles of lighting Screaming out over gods wrath But by God this sight of destruction is nothing but beautiful And yet The world is the most beautiful when it pours But it is utterly ethereal in its aftermath In the still clean quite like an empty chapel The sun rearing it’s head from behind wispy feather clouds All is calm For this is the worlds post-baptism It’s rejuvenation It’s rebirth Water droplets trickling down stain glass pink petals The dove re-emerges calling out its choir song The bluebird responds humming out his own hymns The closest I’ve come to believing in god is in the wake of the storm In the hush of washed out sins repainted pale blue For in this moment we are all reduced to nothing but Gods children In the peace after the storm