Why I Prefer a Rainy Day

[E.A Rumfield]

Let the rain
filter away my pain
and drag my sorrows
across the rough rocky earth
like a beaten man tied to a horse.
Dissolve me
like sugar into water
and drink what's left.
Into the dark abscess of the night
I step with quiet confidence
and a swaggered stride.
Only a tear in your eyes,
or a forced goodbye.
An ant in a mound.
A man in the city that grew too tall
with a big bank account
and a life that meant
nothing at all.
A world like a cage
and a mind like a blade
and you ask
why I prefer a rainy day.

[Haunted]

It started off a bit cliche for me, rain has been beaten to death, but then I saw how you tied it back at the end of the poem. I still think you can have an edgier and entirely original opening by leaving out the rain:

I drag my sorrows
across the rough rocky earth
like a beaten man tied to a horse.

"sugar" is too sweet, it doesn't jive with the harsh image that it follows.

The "sorrow" part is contradicted by "I step with quiet confidence / and a swaggered stride."

Different elements in the poem are fighting with each other, I'm afraid. The thought process is good, I think you need to re-think how to present it more coherently.

[E.A Rumfield]

I re wrote the whole thing except the first few lines but I'm not sure if it made a better poem. And for some reason it rhymes now something I never do.

Drag my sorrows
across the rough rocky earth,
like a beaten man tied to a horse
and burn what remains.
Tortured and maimed,
my soul holds no pain.
Cursing you name.
Cursing your name!
Into the dark abscess of night, still no silence.
Your mouth like a knife
a cut and a slice
but I've toughened my hide.
Only a tear in your eyes,
or a forced goodbye.
An ant in a mound.
I'm a clock that's been wound.
My hands on the ground
I pray to the clouds
just show me how
No answer, No answer
My thoughts wash up on
some foreign shore.

[Haunted]

It's much more consistent. I think you can tighten it some more but it's coming along. I didn't detect the rhyming, it would have bothered me. You probably can get away without repetition of the line, "Cursing your name!". Shouldn't have to use exclamation marks. Try to convey the emotions in an exclamation mark, but in words.