The Storm

Thunderous bang Blinding flash of lightning A loud clap The crack of a whip on air The storm raged on The endless shower of the heavens Continued to pour in a furious gush With a staccato matched by no other Droplets of water merged to form bombs That dispelled the rhythm of sleep The rain ceased to sooth As its arrival on the tin roofs Sounded in disturbing fashion All sound silenced by the shimmering and hissing The heavens continued to spit on the earth Dust turned into mud Streaks of puddles formed United they raced in a furor in tune to the laws of gravity The parched earth sucked the running water Choked and spat out the trapped air But the water was not to be outdone As it rushed in a melee far from the earths surface Into choreographed gutters, trenches and reservoirs The rain droned on The deepest slumbers awakened This was not a rain like any other The roof cracks began to pour in water not droplets Widened and rendered the roof useless Inhabitants were drenched within four vertical walls The wind arrived with a loud whistle And the loud protest of roofing sheets As they were ripped of with extreme violence They were tossed like leaves Until they were suddenly dropped lifeless several meters away The wind cracked windows Sucked out trees from the embrace of the earth The planted crop was carried upright and life less On a ride of its life To be dropped as if in disgust far from the field Those that remained in the ploughed land Lay flat heads and body battered to submission by the pelting rain Then like the end of the tango The rain slowed down with contrasting grace With extreme haste after laying to waste Everything all had worked for The silence of the night returned With all things tongue tied The morning arrived after eternity The pale rays of dawn Revealing the gruesome sight to all and sundry The sorrowful disarray Of abandoned life forms and possessions Then far from beyond the mountain The thunder rumbled as if in satisfaction Of the immense destruction and impending starvation and doom