When the day turned into night
The night turned wet
…until the morning
In the morning
The ground was crying wet
Well unto the rising riverbed
The tears from heaven
Had dropped in torrents and droplets
Flowing eastwards towards the entire west
The drains had been thirsting for desilting
Until the drains got fed up…and sped off
The drains fed the stagnant lakes
The lakes fed the flowing rivers
The rivers fed the swallowing ocean
The watery depth deepened the sorrows of the swelling waters
When night turned into day
The day strayed into flooding alleyways
None resolved to stay where they ought to stay
The walls tumbled away
The rooms raised their own Primsol line above the waistline
The men raised their suits above their suites
The women praised the chicken for running to the kitchen
The children pushed their feet into the wrong boots
And pulled their books away from school
When the day dragged onto the streets
The streets blushed under running water
The streets suffocated beneath rolling rubbers
The streets dug old holes into new dams
Old cracks turned new graves…and caves
The streets peeled off tar to touch dust
“From dust you were born
To dust you have returned”
When the day stretched into the offices
There still existed vacancies
The emptiness therefrom was too hollow to notice;
The desks
The files
The cubicles
The silent occupants
All remained behind closed doors
The parking lots
The scheduled slots
The banking vaults
The absent participants
All remained outside flooded doors
When the day spent the evening at the graveyard
There were new arrivals
Arriving before their funeral
Appearing before their burial
For they had swam
And had swam with the current
When Nadmo had stayed absent
When Nadmo had waited to be sent
When Nadmo had remained silent
When the day turned into night
The night claimed back the nightmare
And who wasn’t scared?
For the reality was scary
Scary!
Who was expecting even a raindrop?
None to pray for a drop to rain
All prayed and trusted and hoped
Prayed the rain to stop
To stop scaring the cats…and the dogs
And the frogs
Oh!
But sure
It has been so
Since 1900
