December 6, 2022 - “The weight of rain” by Elizabeth Lerman

When the rain falls, this time, it feels heavier than it has in days before, and I wonder what it means when I start to melt into meekness. I don’t like to depend on sunshine too much but I swear something like erosion is happening in the face of all these storms, something like soil sinking deeper into the earth, and maybe that is where the weight of rain comes in, and if it would just lighten up for a moment I might be able to stand again and speak aloud to myself, saying something will change when the sun comes up, saying when dirt dries, it moves at the mercy of the wind and think - what a feeling that would be.