Thunderstorm...

[anirbas]

I am an impending thunderstorm

I crouch on your horizon
in an expansive wallcloud
of all the colors of a bruise-
indigo, green, purple and yellow

I am your worst nightmare
about to come pass
wrecking dreams
of security
that do not last

I am fixing to unleash
hell on earth as I birth
hailstones and tornados
to walk through your world
and bring unmitigated destruction

Bringing you to your knees
to pray to your chosen god
for relief or curse him as you please

I am non-prejudicial in victimization

But, do not ask me why I do these things...
For I do not have an answer for you, other than...

I am an impending thunderstorm...

[anirbas]

another one of those poems, where I pick an object, or a natural entity,
as in this case and imagine what it might say if given a choice
and a voice with which to speak...

[wistfuldragon]

very nice...I really liked this one...felt it more than read it...

[glenn]

sort of off-topic but...

The snowstorm that blasted Toronto yesterday was one of those very rare storms in that there were claps of thunder and bolts of lightning observed in the midst of the driving snow.

I never knew that could even happen. What a wild kind of storm!

[wistfuldragon]

Yes Glenn it can happen...and when I was still living on the south shore of Lake Tahoe...we had a three day snow storm...heavy falls and drifts of snow...on my way to work I stopped at Reagan beach where I saw lightening strike the Lake...while the snow flakes were falling hard...big fluffy ones...it was amazing and the next day it was in the local paper...but no one got the chance to shoot it...but it was great...

[anirbas]

Thanks for the reads, MIsh and Glenn...

It's good you felt it more than read it, M...
Sort of what I was trying to do with the piece...
Make the reader feel it...The electricity...
The ominous feeling of not knowing
what is about to happen...
Only to know, it's going to happen...

I've not seen a snowstorm, like ya'll with lightning and thunder...
But, I've heard of them...And though we rarely have winter rainstorms here, with lightning and thunder, last weekend, we did...Made the entire event feel eerie...

Just goes to show, Nature does as Nature pleases...
No matter how much we puny humans think we know
of Nature's ways...