even in the rain, i still love you
Even in the rain, I still love you, as your damp fingertips twist in my hair, and my footsteps sink in the sand beside the waves of home. It was only yesterday, the sun slept on our shoulders, leaving red burns of welcome as I dozed within your sandy arms where we lay, solitary, until night while 9a familiar breeze continued whispering across our skin. But today it rains, driving us away from the warmth and comfort, of the place we call home. The twisting roads pulling us indoors, behind silent, rainswept windows, where I mutter curses at the weather gods, harbingers of disappointment, and reality arrives. But behind it all, as I shiver against your cold expanse, even in the rain, I will always love you, Long Beach.