Chico's Driveway

I woke up with the smell of rain making me smile
Rain makes the earth clean and bright and green
It washes away your troubles and cares,
Like a river on the day you were baptized.

Then I started drowning
The mud was pulling me down
I couldn’t breathe and there was nothing to hold onto
Everywhere I looked there was mud, laughing, pulling, taunting

I wonder if that’s how Hell feels
Knowing you can’t go back, you can’t go forward, all it MUD
And you just keep sinking deeper
How can something so cleansing be so hard to move through?

The rain is like my mind
If it blends with clean things it makes them cleaner
But if it’s dirty, you can’t escape

6/9/95