Tokyo Summer Rain

Tokyo summer burns so hot, I gave you all the years I got. In my late twenties, left behind, While you found someone new to bind. I press a cold can to my cheek, The future looks so blurred and bleak. You gave her the ring I waited for, And softly closed our golden door. A sudden shower cools the town, As heavy raindrops tumble down. I wish the rain could wash away, The silent vows you broke today... And clean the streets of clear, cold gray. The smell of wet asphalt fills the air, The wedding news I couldn't bear. Seven long years we built in vain, Now washed away in summer rain. I sip my drink and take a breath, In the skyscraper’s shadow, deep as death. I am released, I’m standing free, Though thirty draws so close to me. A sudden shower cools the town, As all the painful noise turns down. The summer sky, so vast and high, Reflects a girl who’ll make it by... Wiping a teardrop from her eye. Released into the summer wind, A brand new chapter must begin. No longer yours, but finally mine... I’ll be just fine, in my own time.