Rain Diary-Part2

1. It’s not the rains so much as its Absence that’s raining today To feel an absence some times Is to feel a pricking presence Be it anything. Rain or love Humaneness or government planning Their voids are not mere inanities. This is not my complaint. It is But everyone’s predicament. 2. Today’s rains I think are unchanged From the beginnings of earth Is it why it is so cold Is it really old. Why is not A new river getting born. High tech rains flood choked roads Gleaming cars and sludgy slums are Both under water in the metro. 3. Nineth day rains just forget to rain It makes me forget too. I forget Its lyric. Its rhyme, I forget My head, my freezing blood. As a cloudburst of gloom I land Where life’s struggle has turned. More intense for want of sunshine. We want sunshine in paths. More than In the insides. Whether it is The offices, service providers Judiciary or law enforcers More of sunshine is now needed In corridors, in leading-in paths 4. My opaque vision has by now seen The enormity of a down pour And the inadequacy of a shower. I now seek to discern with new eyes The transparent world beyond, The countless droplets , simple But elemental wonders Like those who toil in farms Quarries, highways, mines and oceans I no more want the enormity Of a complicated deluge. Have I not waited enough To get a water connection.