8 Feb 1998
A Darker Shade Of Normality

The change was all too sudden,
From sun to storm as minutes passed
And last nights rain still drips from each tree.

Everything still wet,
Soaked with the despair of change.
The colours are all different now.
Darker than normal.

And as the cars drive by,
We hear the puddles splash.
A fine spray of water rises with each passing.

And the young girl,
Waiting on the corner
Is saturated by the fine spray as the car passes by.

Now her jacket is soaked
With the all too sudden change
And the despair it was intended to hide
Is now obvious to all.

Her confidence is swept away with the final gust of wind
And her tears begin to overflow and drip,
Just like last nights rain which still drips from each tree,
Her watery world is turned around
She has lost sight of normality.