Best Poems Written by Malini Rai

Black and White

Black & White

Rain outside the kitchen
Was filling up all her senses

Heaviness could be heard from all rooms in the house
Fragrance of it, filling up her nostrils and calming her soul
Magnanimity of the pour dwarfing her tiny tears

Days became shorter
Night came in faster
Every time it rained this heavily 

She could see dim lights slowly flickering on
She was reminded of her childhood in the countryside
Where she would splash in muddy waters and drench herself in the rains
Carefree enjoyments of those times

City bound the rain
It was carefully channelized into drains
And sent away before it could make its presence felt
City bound everything
You walked on designated footpaths and crossed roads only on zebra crossings
Zebras with their black and white stripes often visited the grazing patch behind her house in the village

Flip of a switch flooded the room with light
Rain seemed dimmer outside
She closed her eyes and sucked in as much moist air as her lungs could hold
It was the last rain of the season
She knew it,
She could sense it

At dawn the city would fall back into routine

Rain would leave no puddles to play in
Grey concrete roads would show little trace of it
And people would be crossing roads at Zebra crossings
And she would be waiting for the year to pass by
So rains could visit her again
And remind her of Zebras that crossed forests to graze in her backyard
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