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<p><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">The sound of rain</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">falling from the leaves</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">hitting the ground</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">grows louder and louder</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">while the sound of it</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">flowing away grows fainter</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">I feel lonely</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">The morning sunlight streams</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">through the cracks in the curtains</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">Wildfires</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">Droughts</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">Earthquakes</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">Floods</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">Tornadoes</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">Inflation</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">A hometown marred</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">by natural and social disasters</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">faces of my parents</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">whom I cannot see—</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">longing for their love</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">which holds hope for me</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">unconditionally—</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">is conveyed to me</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">by the sound of the dawn rain.</span><br><span style="color: #141823; background-color: #fffef4;">And then it grows quiet again.</span></p>
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