WEATHER
The wind and rain whipped across the rooftop
With severity
Bashing everything in it’s path
Showing no charity
Curling and lifting and tossing and bossing about –
Anything it could get it’s hands on
leaving all in no doubt
About – the fact that it meant business of
the most unkind-kind
Tarpaulin ripped apart releasing all that it tried to bind
Wind – No respecter of persons it’s coercion – included
All trees – thumped and bent and harassed and denuded
The wind blows where it will – we hear the sound
Indoors we hear it’s drum roll and the rain’s merry go-round
Heard one way – heard another way –
fixed on drenching the house
Creatures run to hide – rabbit, fox or mouse
Deluge of showers watching it’s own result
As saturation point is reached leaving injury and insult
The weather – whether or not – it’s nice or
throwing a tantrum
Living up to it’s name –
proving itself our chum or leaving us numb
We engage in wordy-aftermaths, as we each tell our story
Of how bad this was or talk of the sun in all it’s glory
Sun shines to heat – and sunburnt – we meet – her –
with a welcoming Oil
Everyone relaxes from their work and toil
They sang of slipping into the shade
To sip their lemonade
Or run and hide their heads from the downpours drench
Who knows if this rain will last and we need to dig a trench?
Weather weather weather all different kinds
Especially in the homeland where I come from
Step out in the sun – swim in the rain – freeze in the wind
Or do all three – each day – alternatively
Weather weather everywhere part of life you see
Weather for you and weather for me – forecast on the TV
Some hang on every word wanting to know the score
I couldn’t care less – glasses for sun – umbrella for rain
How difficult does it have to be – need I say more?
Weather – global warming – plastic playing it’s part –
Coral reefs – ignorant I be
of what all this means – comparatively
I like you – look to – the experts agenda –
ready to do my part
But above and beyond in outer space and further
In the untold reaches of the universe –
that’s where the answers be
Weather in the here and now – look out the window
What do you see?
Can I hang out the washing – or ‘a waste of time it be’
Take your dog for a walk – in the park
And contemplate with me – if it wasn’t for the weather where would we be?
