My Heart Leaps Up*

Round about the roundabout
and arcing over our car,
as we drove home from the clinic,
through the brainwashing tumbledrum,
the constant stutter and tutting of rain,
a rainbow rose above;
a rebellious banner,
rebooting my drained brain.

A rainbow, bringing rebirth
to my darkness flooded heart;
a rainbow that you read about,
only in beano comics;
a rainbow that could cheer up Rimbaud;
rarer than a Rembrandt,
a rainbow bringing reason,
with no pricks or side-effects.

*'My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky' - Wordsworth