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.
Copyright © S.Jagathsimhan Nair | Year Posted 2011
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