Rain Poem by Russell Aydelotte

Rain falls outside
He wonders if
he will last the night.
the doctors help his wife
make it through her labor.
Her husband waits in a bed
waiting for his cancer to take him.
Then he's told:

You wont last the night.
it's just to strong to fight.
it's taking over everything
including your eyes.

It's bitter cold outside
his newborn child will never know his father.
the doctor walks in,
tells him it's a boy,
then his life leaves him,
at only 25.
Oh God why!

you wont last the night
now the light has left his eyes
leaving a newborn child and his wife
all alone with no good plight,
he's taking away from the world he knew,
at 25 he's like a newborn baby boy,
in his mothers arms.

Rain falls outside.
the funeral goes on,
all through the night.
lightning rolls across the sky,
a weeping wife falls to the ground
now where her husband lay.