Of Sunshine And Rain...

Monday, June 6, 2011

Random thought of a beautiful mind
Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today


My humble response

Tried lying out on a bright day
Instead of bliss got a blister;
Atrocity of sun in earth's oven
Menacing, diabolical, sinister.

So I dashed indoors, cursing,
Calling sun names of all kinds;
Wishing summer to shove sweet
And rid us of light that blinds.

My blinds drawn on boiling world
Like a fallen angel of the dark I hid;
Till rain gods, to my rescue, came
Horde of droplets to do their bid.

Out I rushed, with arms wide open
To meet and greet world renewed;
Be soaked to bone in the blessing of
Overcast heavens as thunder ensued.

As my own hell washed away, I stood,
Wondering about you on other side;
Walking in a parallel creation indoors,
Alone as I, with your own time to bide.

Are you, forever, destined to stay home
Watch the wild wild world come and go;
Misshapen, distorted and blurred by
Rain snakes slithering down the window?

Of youth and long life, dear, I tell you
Their promises draw false breath;
Like wise Penelope’s shrewd shroud,
Playing Ostrich with suitor of death.

To live like there’s always a tomorrow,
And kill the minions of Mighty Time;
I marvel at idea of being your Marvell,
Fantasizing how coyness were a crime.

But I sing not another man’s lament,
I tell you the song that’s in my heart;
Give you my hand to cross this chasm
To join me in this rain for the start.