It rained every day of my memory <br />before you. <br /> <br />Clouds hid the sun on the brightest of days <br />before you. <br /> <br />Colors fought gray film to be seen <br />before you. <br /> <br />Happiness hovered behind the skirts of melancholy <br />before you. <br /> <br />Pleasure lingered beneath numb skin <br />before you. <br /> <br />Love wandered lonely, unrecognized and pitied, <br />before you. <br /> <br />Life reduced to mere existence, unridden and plodding, <br />before you. <br /> <br />Now life rides in full sunshine, clouds banished <br />Colors vibrant, happiness and love hand in hand, <br />Numb, gray and meloncholy have vanished, <br />Expelled in the light and laughter that land <br />over me as I stand <br />before you.<br /><br />Sydney Daniels<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/before-you/
