--- title: Overcast date: 2011-08-30T07:45:05Z modified: 2011-08-30T07:45:05Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/overcast/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1157 categories: - Life Poems - Sad Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Overcast.jpg" featured_image_alt: Overcast author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2011-08-30T07:45:05Z tags: - Life Poems - Sad Poems --- thunder and lightning, it’s been raining all night,![Overcast](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Overcast.jpg "Overcast") standing under an umbrella, i am drenched to the bone; its’ been like this for quite sometime, cloudy and overcast, dark clouds lingering in the horizon, threatening to flood the land below; drawing a parallel, my life has been like this, dark, gloomy and overcast, ready to burst anytime; i tried to take shelter, i tried to do things that will protect me, i tried and i did, but i could not escape; stuck, as i am, deeply into it, [the dark](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-darkness.md) forces of life seem to be taking control of MY LIFE and pushing me towards the brink; i tried to [run](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/running-dark.md) away, but with legs bound by chains, i could not even move an inch; i tried to close my eyes, but the darkness is even more frightening; as i wade through the [storm](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/storm-passion.md), completely drenched and soaked to the bone, the [rain](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/a-rose-in-the-rain.md) keeps falling; as i watch the sky turn pale and grey and overcast with clouds, darkness slowly sets in from all directions, standing under an umbrella, i sit there, waiting for the light [(sunrise)](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/sunrise-love.md), on a world that is getting darker and darker (scarier);