When it had rained for long
Flooding the rivers
Submerging the fields and
The water lillies there.
Plastic floated
In pieces of different colors
Did it rain plastic?
It rained more
The house was cold
It’s children cold
They slept.
Crows didn’t perch on the electric line
Their wings were wet
They were pecking on a plastic bag
That had brought food.
Frogs felt too cold to croak
They went inside the plastic bottles
in the pond
They choked
The hills were cold
The grass too felt cold
The cows had slowly chewed the plastic lying amidst the grass.
Why did it rain too much
The rain had arrived for a reason
To wash and cleanse
The earth’s wounds
Wreaked by insensitive humans.
Soon the sun will shine bright
To dry, to heal
After it had rained much
On the sore bruises of earth.
But scars will remain.
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