Friday writings for Randos - Rain Travel

{Friday Writings for Randos - A weekly post that features pieces from other writers that touch some facet of the Randonneuring experience, even if that was not the author's intent. It's stuff that's best read out loud - slowly.} This week it's . . .

Rain Travel

by W.S. Merwin

I wake in the dark and remember

it is the morning when I must start

by myself on the journey

I lie listening to the black hour before dawn 

and you are still asleep beside me 

while around us 

the trees full of night lean hushed in their dream 

and bears us up asleep and awake 

then I hear drops 

falling one by one

 into the sightless leaves 

and I do not know when they began 

but all at once there is no sound but rain

and the stream below us roaring away 

into the rushing darkness