Dancing Raindrops

Raindrops
dancing on tin roof
making ting ting sounds
penetrating my ears
opening my eyes
from a noon nap

I see mother
a basin in one hand
another stretching out
feeling raindrops
coming down
on bamboo floor
of our little home

Looking up
finding holes on the tin roof
putting down the basin on the bamboo floor
for the coming down raindrops
from a leaking tin roof,
Mother sigh a relief

Looking back
Father was never home
out in the open field
in rain and shine
making holes in earth
growing corns and grains
for a new tin roof

by
Rosie Azali
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