Thunderous rain
Bouncing on pavements
Making rivers flow
Gathering intensity
Swirling and dragging
Life washed away
The sky lowered
Confining the earth
Heavy blanket of grey
Pressing down
Constricting life
Smothering breath
Water streams down
Clouding perception
Vision blurred
Obscuring the world
Horizon shortens
Dissolved in mist
Pervasive aura of fog
Surrounding our senses
Trapping our energy
Bewildering mind
And body
Immobile, dormant
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