rain fall on a tin roof
inside i sit and scribble a haiku
on a napkin from our takeaway thai food


Monday afternoon - cloudy skies.
school work and rain.

Sometimes you need those days when you can hear the rain falling with a splat against the pavement outside and the grey clouds running down your window.
There's something about that feeling of being dry and sheltered by the indoors while the world continues to work around you. The rain will keep on falling, whether you're out there to get wet or not.
And in such cases, you're distanced from it, you can look out on it as you are not part of it, but there are those days when this disconnection is precisely what you want. There's something reflective about the cloudy skies of a monday afternoon.
Books are either piled or sprawled over the table-top surfaces, their sneaky-ness getting you with their passive-agressiveness. Silently they scream at you, and constant, dead-still reminder of what you should be doing.
Except some days, you accept this. Some days you don't even take it to heart, you brush it off and you do what they tell you - you tackle those sneaky devils.
These days breed inspiration, because all you can do is sit inside and watch the world go on - so you do what you can to make your world move, you make your mark and you get it done.

I don't know what everyone thinks of the rain. Does it inspire you or depress you, does it anger you or does it make you lazy.
It mocks you and laughs at you as it knows you're not tempted to interrupt it, to maybe try (and fail) to deny its existance and prevalence. It is what keeps you inside, and keeps you from going out and doing something, anything to make a connection to the outside world.
And so it forces you into a contemplative state, or perhaps a lethargic one. It gives you no choice.
And perhaps this is exactly what we need.

Don't we all need a bit of rain to push us into that which we'd rather avoid?
The reflection, the contemplation, the work or the study.

I say, a rainy can't hurt anyone once in a while.
A rainy day could do you the world of good.
(After all, when are you going to use that falling star?)