LATE NIGHT STEALTHY RAINFALL'S PASSING HEALING SONG   (somewhere around 1989; San Diego, California)

   
   
some faint  steady    
rhythmic sound    
gently rouses me from my sleep    
here at three a m    
compelling me to get up out of bed    
with eyes still partially closed    
to go to my nearest window    
where to my hypnogogic    
pleasantly surprised delight    
i unexpectedly discovered    
then irresistibly chose to linger    
to more deeply savor    
listening to the steady    
primal cleansing hypnotic sound    
of a stealthily passing    
late night  coastal storm s    
trance like pouring rainfall    
dreamlike falling down    
percussing off my rooftop s    
sheltering overhang    
in it s soothing    
peace inducing    
sleep enhancing    
continuous      
drip drop slapping    
splish splash dancing    
raindrop echoing    
late night song s    
sweet relaxing    
primordially transcendent music    
elementally being sedately sung    
so freely down onto  upon    
these presently unseen    
ghostly sleeping    
empty  wet concrete    
nocturnal sidewalks and streets    
way down here    
outside my window down below    
while most of the rest    
of this human world out there    
at this wee hour    
everywhere around me here    
and far beyond as well    
continues to remain    
deeply asleep    
completely detached    
off in other countless    
unknown  random dreams their own    
unconsciously oblivious to it all    
though subconsciously    
still equally blessed    
with the quality of their    
unconscious sleep enhanced    
by and with and from    
this stealthily passing    
late night coastal storm s    
benevolently healing  cleansing    
unseen  unheard  unknown    
continuous      
drip drop slapping    
splish splash dancing    
raindrop echoing    
late night song s    
sweet relaxing    
primordially transcendent music    
elementally being    
sedately sung    
so freely down  
onto  upon us all  
all we late night  sheltered  
sleeping and not sleeping  
ones  
unconsciously  
subconsciously  
and consciously  
alike  
with each and all  
of us  
in and to  
varying degrees  
eventually  
inevitably  
fully awakening  
spiritually  
at different rates  
of time and speed  
into our higher  
highest states  
of true enlightened  
oneness being  
which    
still yet  
nonetheless  
more or less  
at least for those  
who so choose  
to live and grow  
in love and light  
and life that way  
eventually  
inevitably  
ultimately  
in the long run s end  
for each and all  
of us who can  
will nonetheless  
despite all that
despite all this
despite all else  
will still come  
to ineffably  
become
and
be