Rain Positive

Night like an old photo negative,
The dark mountain pale,
The cloud-darkened skies—

Dreaming’s just something
A brain does, and if you’re aware
Dreaming, you’re witness

To your brain entertaining
Itself, freed from the world to be
Wholly brain. It’s not pretty.

From even the best dream it’s better
To wake up, even to a dreary
Room, a narrowing existence,

And this is not dreamy, not now,
This is fine, as the meme goes,
But still—the clouds carry wet,

The town waits for the rest
Of the humans and daylight,
And the dark mountain glows white.