Indian Summer Rain

Indian Summer Rain

P K Routray

Hot and sweltry are days

to get relieved man prays

for rain to come and give relief

so also birds, animal and trees must be praying in grief.

Restless feels the man day and night

to take rest and sleep he has to fight,

the rich stays within artificial climate

at the expense of poor and desperate.

Comes rain with lightening and thunders

breaking the dark cloud with ice cubes showers

Remember I my childhood days in rain

getting drenched, sucking the ice with mummy’s cry in vain.

Infants and babies hide within mother’s arm

The frightening sound of thunder may do some harm

The youth dances in the rain staying away from their parents

to avoid their wrath when suffering from cold they lament.

The old looks with sigh at the dark sky with sparks of lightening

with sound of thunder, to their younger days they travel dreaming.

The dance of peacock in the forest and the trees quenching their thirst

the respite for all from hot humid summer glorify His live art.