Rain

I hail rain In wintery nights When it showers And scented puffs of damp Cool breeze from my orchard Strikes against my Cheeks While I stand in Corridor Where Phantoms of the yester_ years Awaits All bathed in sleet While autumnal leaves ships Float And fall in yard And compose music On Wind pipes Telling ancient stories While earthen lamps flicker in casements Thousands of hazy shadows Of hopes and dreams come muffled and Enshrouded I hail them all With leaden eyed While in yard Clouds still shed tears Lady of night stands still drenched in tears Of clouds And Puffs knocks the wooden doors Mysteriously Moon will be somewhere Behind the clouds I think That He must be mesmerized By my earthen lamps Flickering In such a rainy night And thousands of candles Flicker and shine In Wonder-struck Eyes While soul hears In ecstasy The soothing melodies Of Gushing rain