Rain Dance

Yellow and Black
They perched together
Two revellers
Cavorting
On their wire stage
Serenading the open sky
With merry voices,
Stretching to greet each drop
Conspiring to drench
Wings spread in anticipation
Relief
Release
Rejoicing
Resounds across the dark heavens
Every jubilant flutter
Steals my heart
Enthrals my gaze
Transfixed
On this declaration
Of pure exhilaration
Too afraid
To avert my stare
Lest that fleeting moment
Ruin the spectacle
That returned my smile
Lifted my sombre spirit,
Encumbered
By the tense wanderings
Of a mind
Bleak and depressed
Recalled to joy
By the feathery show
Undeterred by the torrent
Pelting down from on high
Nimble little feet
Chirpy voices
Energized by the downpour
Dance
Sing
For a solitary audience,
A molten heart
Feeling the warmth
Of a crowded room.