Reading Time: < 1 minute
Amidst rain and storms, Rajashree’s evocative poem and Earth unite in silent sorrow. offering refuge to an unsung love, exclusively for Different Truths.
Rain Rain Rain Oh, dear sky you rain, Soak deeply, the earth and the mountains And so also sympathise The abject lover’s puzzled brain. The drops of rain appear As if streams of tears Running out of a pair of sunken eyes Reverberating in the air The voice of a forlorn lover. The loud, rumbling sound of Fired thunders Come as the beating of drums Towards commemorating the showering distress of A desolate and dreary love. The tears of the lidded eyes Soak the earth With a silent intoxication At par with the monsoon rains But Alas! Someone somewhere dances in rhythms With exalted cheers Induced to start dancing On the beats of the song of the vault of heaven. Soaked earth thus cries in silence At par with the ink-soaked paper of a poet. Where words vanish To describe in verse the essence of a story unsaid Or a pain not lamented But allows the love to take refuge.
Picture design by Anumita Roy
