Hailstorm Inbetween Poem by Deluke Muwanigwa

Hailstorm Inbetween

I do not know what i expected to see
I kept looking at the skies
At my cellphone anticipating unexpected blackouts
At my electric power lines expecting sparks
Expecting some effect of a solar flare
The phenomenon which travelled one hundred and forty three million kilometres
From the sun to earth with love
There was just a hailstorm inbetween

I parked my car behind my black sliding gate.
Marooned behind two metre high brick columns
10 metres away was my bedroom
Ziggy my Maltese sheltering on the other side
Mambokatsi my feline wonder probably curled up somewhere safe
My wife seating on the passenger seat
Marooned outside our home
A hailstorm inbetween

I expected to feel our atmosphere distorting to one side
And the whiplash when it righted itself
I felt or saw no such thing
There was just water running in drains
A street emptied of people
A lone 'TV Sales & Home' truck delivering goods
Marooned at the gate of a house two properties away
The sound of raindrops and ice crystals falling on the roof of my car.
No sign of the solar flare
Only a strong hailstorm inbetween.

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