The Shine Journal

The Cleansing

by

Cheryl Williams

Rain whispers,

a gentle hush

falling over parched pavement,
 
a healing balm

to the violence

that fell before.

Sunlight

does not reflect this morn,

for this baptism is needed,

washing away

the residue of human fraility,

a quiet restoration

birthed in the hands of God.

Bio: CHERYL WILLIAMS  lives in Charlotte, NC.  She has been writing since the age of 15 and has been published in various journals, magazines and anthologies.

Motivation : I wrote this as I was listening to a gentle rain falling outside.  I could hear it on the pavement and thought of all of of the dirt and residue that pavement had been exposed to prior to the rain.  This poem was the result...