Stray Colours

It rained and rained

For forty days and forty nights

As an apology and a promise

God delivered us a rainbow

Many different colours

Painted across the sky

From one end to another

A beauty to be admired

One day after the rain

When the rainbow appeared

It exploded in the sky

Leaving stray colours afloat

The red fell to the ground

Orange and Yellow partnered up

And flew up to the sun

While green mixed with the grass

Blue fused into the sky

And Indigo danced away

While Violet just disappeared

Leaving the sky aghast

All the colours of the rainbow

No longer together as one

Has the promise been broken?

Or the rain been stopped?

The sky is now empty

No beauty to adorn it

Just the sun shining down

Leaving the world all radiant and bright

Jo Anne Kennedy

May 2015