I can't see the sun through this lingering gray cloud. Why won't it move? And when did it get here? Today everything just felt like it was moving in slow motion: paying my bill at the grocery store, answering that unwanted phone call, turning off the TV, all of it. Like one slow funeral procession. It's obviously nice out, kids are in the street. But all I see is this damn cloud. And all I hear is Amel Larrieux's Make Me Whole. When a song replays in my head like that, I liken it to a dream: there's some metaphoric meaning as to why I keep hearing this particular song but for the life of me, I can't figure it out. I do know this:

I've got every reason in the world to feel the sunlight like those kids in the street, but I can't escape this cloud. Well Mr. Cloud, umbrellas are in short supply, so if you're going to rain would you just do it already?

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