Memories of Rain (TwO)

Looking into the sky
It's grey clouds releasing their load
We told stories of our childhood
memories of rain.
His forgotten umbrella
My running in my bathing suit
His tears waiting for his mother
My father taking a rain shower as we laughed
His mother arriving with a vinyl umbrella
My playing in mud puddles
"This is the first time I have heard about your hometown, tell me more."
Something inside me sighed at his request.
No one had asked about where I came from
I sometimes forget that I had a life before Korea
While watching rain fall from the heavens
I recounted laying in tall grass watching clouds pass
Building forts
Adventurous romps in the woods
Our waterfall
Hide and seek in the corn
Hot days cooled by evening rains
I didn't speak of the angry house
The aloneness we each felt
Our only comfort each other
Looking into the sky
It's grey clouds releasing their load
We told stories of our childhood memories of rain.