Rainy Morning

It rained hard yesterday and was still coming down in sheets last night as Toby and I drove to the airport to meet ML's plane from Detroit.  It's great to have her home, I feel lucky to have her as my companion, a reason to sleep at one side of the bed. 

This morning it's still raining.  I woke up with a Dylan song in my head, the other side of my coin:

They sat together in the park
and watched the evening sky grow dark.
She looked at him, he felt a spark
tingle to his bones.
It was then he felt alone
and wished that he'd gone straight
and watched out for a simple twist of fate.

They walked along by the old canal,
a little confused, I remember well,
and stopped into a strange hotel
with the neon burning bright.
He felt the heat of the night
hit him like a freight
train driven by a simple twist of fate

A saxophone somewhere far off played
as she was walking by the arcade.
As light burst through the beat up shade
where he was waking up,
she dropped a coin into the cup
of a blind man at the gate
and forgot about a simple twist of fate

When he woke up the room was bare -
he couldn't see her any where.
He told himself he didn't care,
pushed the window open wide,
felt an emptiness inside
to which he just could not relate
brought on by a simple twist of fate.

He hears the ticking of the clocks,
walks along with a parrot that talks,
hunts her down by the waterfront docks
where the sailors all come in.
Maybe she'll pick him out again.
How long must he wait
once more for a simple twist of fate?

People tell me it's a sin
to know and feel too much within.
I still believe she was my twin,
but I lost the ring.
She was born in spring,
but I was born too late.
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.