Sky

歌詞

After the sudden rain The street was still holding its breath At my feet A small sky opened first Inside a shallow mirror Left in the curve of the road Where the last of the gray Had not finished leaving I looked down and there was A thin arc trembling Where water remembered light Before I lifted my eyes Color had already begun somewhere Below me Soft enough to almost disappear The sky opened quietly And a rainbow drifted through it Like something not meant to stay Then I looked up And the real sky was shining Through the rain it had just been Every droplet from within I thought If even this fading world Can hold that kind of light Maybe one day So can I Leaves along the roadside were giving back the evening Each small bead of water turning once then brightening Nothing had changed enough to call it a new life And still the street seemed gentler As if the storm had loosened some hidden thread in things As if the air itself Had learned how to forgive I stood there With my damp sleeves Watching silver gather at the edges of blue The colors were so slight I could have missed them If my heart had not gone still At exactly that moment Maybe beauty is only this Water after weather A little brightness Resting on what was left behind Maybe I have been waiting To feel entirely clear When all along The shining was smaller A quiet thing Caught in passing The kind that reaches you Before you know to ask In the puddle the sky opened again And for a moment the world was deeper than itself Above me the rainbow thinned into distance Around me the rain kept glittering As if leaving slowly Was its own form of light And I thought I want a heart like that Not untouched Not unbroken Only able to shine While still wet After the rain The street kept its silence At my feet The sky was still open By the time the colors faded Something in me Had already turned Toward them Toward them Toward them