Colloquialism
Lightening from heaven, crashing.
Incandescent, violent.
Luminous rainbows appear.
Isolated black clouds, blue sky.
The Devil is beating his wife.
Her tears of pain raining down.
I grew up with the saying that if the sun shone while it rained,
the “devil was beating his wife.”
We didn’t question the wisdom of this, as wives surely got beaten.
Even ‘ol Scratch must have a wife to endure him, and take the blame.
Mothers stayed and crafted beauty through pain,
they forgot to teach us how to leave.
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Oh how powerful and spoken from the soul. Too real for many.
beautiful and full of so much imagery that really activates the pain of it all.
Sheww. This line hits hard “We didn’t question the wisdom of this, as wives surely got beaten.”
you have forever made me think differently about the times the sun and rain are out at the same time and I go running outside in search of a rainbow
I did wonder if she was his wife by choice! Lilith captured my imagination, but not too many safe harbors for the wives of fallen angels.