Clouds

 Mom, you showed me pictures in the skies
Clouds in different shapes and size
Cotton wool, cotton candy, fluffy pillows, a cone of ice-cream
Bubbling foam, splashes of colour in the skies, hissing steam

Sometimes a duck, a rabbit too, a funny face, angry too
Floating above, light as feather across the sky so blue
Changing shapes as each minute goes by
Moving along in a blink of an eye
Sometimes soft like kiss on the cheek
Sometimes dark and sometimes bleak

Calm and white carpets, dark grey angry clouds
Watching upon the earth as birds fly through
In the dark night hide and seek with the moon
Softening the blow of the hot red sun in the afternoon

And when lightning struck the clouds you said
God's lights are not working, come out from under the bed
When the rains came and flooded the earth
God needs to clean his house once a year, you shrugged

Each time I look up at the clouds in the lovely sky
I see your smiling face and wish had wings to fly
To share with you the fun and storms, I withstood
To give you a hug, say the good bye I never could