Ex Tempore VIII - Romantic lines written on a storm

It was only when I sought to listen to the storm that I witnessed
the wild dancing of rain in front of insipid street-light,
that I marvelled at its rapid pummelling of the paved and asphalted roads.
I heard the voices of the wind given word through the enlivened and agitated trees;
I braved the emotion of the gales that burgeoned to such a wrathfulness!
...which then suddenly subsided to a lull that belied their terrible might.
It was only at this moment that on my skin I felt the bite of chill for the very first time;
only by seeing the vapour of my breath did I then really know that I lived—that I lived!—
and for a while was released from the bondage of a world that forgot....
When I listened I was subsumed into the rhythms around me, which have raged for aeons.

M.M. — November MMXI