POEM + AUDIO: RAINBOWS COME AFTER THE RAIN

photo by Alex Lear

 

 

 

 

 

Rainbows Come After The Rain

(featuring Tim Green on soprano saxophone)

 

Rainbows come after the rain

If I don't touch you in the flesh

I'll see you in the dreamtime

 

If I can't hold you in the present

The future will know our kiss

 

Everything that keeps us apart

Just makes our coming together stronger

 

And all the hard hassels of today

Will be sung as funny lyrics tomorrow

In the rainbow sweetness

Of our love song

 

—kalamu ya salaam