God’s promise

Some say rainbows

Are God’s promise

Not to drown us

Again

Like a litter

of unwanted kittens.

Scientists say rainbows

Are light refracted.

Children say rainbows

Are magic arcs.

Some say Irish

throw in a pot of gold,

but my Irish friends

say “Jaysus wept”

at such tomfoolery.

I say rainbows

are reminders

of the invisible world.

Of the darkness made light,

of the mystery

of life.

ROY G. BIV,

I salute you.