Boomerang

Maya Mahant for the weekly challenge that you proposed thank you for the honor. I would like to tag my dear friends Kemi Bonuola Anushka Ramchuran Aditya Sharma Akeem Adetayo Oyalowo I'm assured it can be properly credited poems of another poet, doesn't have to be a personal effort.

The rain boomeranged and banged down bulging bandannas
Abandoning its last restraints
In colorful clothes drenched by ribbons of absolution
Walked the eeriely bedraggled.
I watched and munched my krispy kreme in the company of many hungry kids, vying for Saturday night treats from easy loving parents.

The rain catapulted slingshots of venom till
Glass turned to moist hubris.
It was not going to be a merry traipse across
Town to ferryy my twins home.
So I made the best of it with another tea
Smiled and chatted up a little girl
For company
We three learnt a lot about giraffes and zebras
Till the angel of rain hath in mercy made its pass

We were going home and the cold weather was wonderful
The few items bought gave us good vibes
Wafers and cupcakes to down
With Hershey's syrup
And a huge holographic chart of animals.

Reaching the wet squishy stairs and splashing into
Each puddle!
Singing a song that just simmered and murmered and bubbled
Climbing into our pumpkin shell so cozy we call
It home
There we were  all inside now
One happy mamma and two precious gnomes.! 

This nice book of life's fairytale begins and ends
Looking up at the ceiling over your mahogany coffee table
Ten feet away or so a sorry skeletal being in clothes of see through glass roam from.door to door.
Picking up a little of our litter hoping it will come of use
A half eaten banana in its peel a semi rotten vegetable an apple rotten at the core

The rain beat her down, berating us all,
Discrepancies between the well fed
And those walking dead
The rain streaked us in incriminating colors
To protest at the blood
splattering on our door jambs
The brown varnish peels and melts
In sanguine strips of disgust
Tomorrow a maid on her knees
Will wipe it clean
Tonight the rain does duty washing
Oozing scabs and streaming open wounds
Down strorm drains
We teach our children to be strong
To be proof against all these disasters
These unnatural calamities
By being resolute
And begging for krispy kreme donuts
As the see through woman watches
Through Alzheimer panes of glass amnesia.

© Amrita Valan 2015