The loud sound of thunder interrupted my thoughts,

making me break into tormenting aches and pains

leaving me lonely eventhough im surrounded by love

Scaring me from what I can and cannot do

wishing I be left alone to suffer this once more

my soul flooding with tears of sadness

not understanding how I can be such a coward

giving up without a fight lying there to die

suddenly my innner voice yells without control

insulting me and ordering to stand up

"you can beat this!"

"You know you can!"

Then I ask myself  

"Can you stand the rain?

Before you used to dance and twirl in it,

thunder never stopped you from having fun."

so I get up from bed holding on to the wall

willing to battle to death if I shall

I get outside and feel alive

kneeling down I stretch my arms to heaven

the rain drops give me power to laugh

as the water opens up my soul

I hold onto my chest and feel my heart beating

telling me I am alive and well

as I bathe there kneeling in a puddle of mud

I feel free like rescued from an egg shell

a hard egg shell I had imprisoned myself into

who cares if people laugh at me

who cares what anyone says

I am alive and I am free of being scared

scared of loving, living and screaming

scared of showing everyone I am alive

"Now is your turn to tell me,

CAN YOU STAND THE RAIN?

standing by my side."