Raining Pirates!

Raining tigers and their cages, raining candy, raining clown

Raining tickets for the circus, raining joy that could abound

Raining rooks and raining chess boards, raining blocks and raining books

Raining India, and Yoga, raining fish and raining hooks

Raining horses never ridden, raining clouds that just gave up

Raining stars once shy and winsome, raining rivers gone a muck

Raining thoughts of bleary bishops, raining red shoes for the poor

Raining buildings none too balanced, raining all of that and more

Raining movies, raining moguls, raining me and raining you

Raining Bogart, raining Bergman, raining Catholic, raining Jew

Raining Muslim, raining pilgrim, raining Isreal and Pope

Raining walls that weep and planes too weak and reindeer without hope

Raining Christmas, raining Birthdays, raining door mats, raining tears

Raining parents from beyond their graves and children left with fears

Raining loneliness and Jesus, raining poverty and sin

Raining roses straight from Mary, raining barflies, raining gin

Raining yesterdays and captains, raining ships and raining oars

Raining pirates, raining sorrow, raining sand and raining sm’ores

Raining comfort, raining pepper, raining salt and forks and spoons

Raining Panama and Cuba, raining zebras and baboons

Raining pencils, raining paper, raining all first days of school

Raining homework, raining teachers, raining principals and rules

Raining freckles, raining comics, raining silk and raining lace

Raining crickets, raining strollers, raining the whole human race…