The Earth Takes a Birth

After 182 long weeks When prayers began to seem to fail For a season a little short of an inferno A rage of burns and rashes Salvaged by an epilepsy in the *NEPA Rocked with tumultuous dustiness, A belch is heard from above. The clouds as if in a race combine. In a tango of csardas The cirri are phased out By the overbearing cumuli Not a threat is heard of the sun! Of a sudden the earth is blanketed And plundered in a fury of flatulence It bears a cool much more relieving In joy all helter-skelter for shelter For a moment everywhere wears a calm As though waiting to be flagged off The clouds, heavy and in uncomfortable suspense. A flash of illumination Shortly followed by a roar that shakes all A ball of water makes way Falling out of heaven it dashes away Piercing vertically unto target And Unusually big, It hits the earth giving off a puff The next moment sees the heavens open her windows And then the pour A thorough wash of severity As drumbeats and heavy as hail The purification ceremony begins. *NEPA- National Electric Power Authority