Thursday, April 26, 2012

Rain, Rain




RAIN, RAIN
I MUST BE REALLY PARCHED
SCORCHED AND BARREN
EVEN MORE THAN THE EARTH
WHICH YOU CRUELLY CONSUMMATE

TO WELCOME
RAPTUROUSLY
YOUR ADVENT,
HERALDED BY PROPER CEREMONY
OF DARK, OVERBEARING CLOUDS
LIGHTNING AND THUNDER-CLAPS
OR UNANNOUNCED WITH TEMPERAMENTAL OUTBURSTS

YOUR COOL SPRAY ON MY THROBBING TEMPLES
THROUGH THE WINDOW
THE SOUNDS OF YOUR CARESS
ON THE MILDLY PROTESTING PANES
AND WHISPERS
COAXING THE LEAVES TO SUBMISSION
AND THE INTOXICATING AROMA
OF AROUSED PASSION RISING FROM THE EARTH
DIFFUSE INTO MY BEING
AND STIR TO LIFE THE DEADENED HOPES

IN HUMILITY I SMUGLY FEEL WRAPPED
WITH VISIONS OF YOUR POWER
INFUSING LIFE OR DESTROYING IT
AS YOU REIGN UNRELENTINGLY
BESTOWING MOODILY YOUR FAVOURS
TENDERLY IN A COMPASSIONATE SHOWER HERE
OR LASHING IN DEVASTATING FURY THERE
GERMINATING NOW OR UPROOTING
IMPETUOUSLY, INEXORABLY
IN A STUPENDOUS ACT
OF INCLEMENT COPULATION
URGENT, HYSTERICAL
INSATIATE AND OVERWHELMING
DEMANDING NOTHING LESS THAN TOTAL SURRENDER

AND EVEN AS YOU DEPART
LEAVING THE EARTH
RAVAGED AND RAVISHED AND FECUND
IN PAIN IT PINES AND THIRSTS

AS ALSO I DO
AS I LIE ON MY BED BY THE WINDOW
CRIPPLED, WASTED, DISCARDED, EMPTY



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Charu wrote:
Bhai,
Obligingly and wistfully reliving a day in memory.
charu 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Bhai,

Obligingly and wistfully reliving a day in memory.

charu