A Bed that Floats By Ubaji Ishiaka Abubakar Eazy

Do you not
                love
                         a bed that floats?

It carries you about

And you dream of travelling in fluffy skies

Lost in a hazy dreamland as Alice,

You twist and turn happily on the bed

Smiling and giggling from faraway wonderland

You touch birds and wave at the heavens

Which you can almost touch

If you should stand.

Then your bed gets soaked

And water touches your clothes

And you wonder how your floating bed

Suddenly became wet.

You wake up and see rooftops only

Shock hugs wonderment as you look around

Houses are deeply submerged in water

Mama and Papa are nowhere to be found

The flood has swallowed everything

All around is water

And
         you are
                        drifting
           about in it...
                        On a bed
                                         that floats.

Copyright Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy 2016
For the flood victims in Haiti.