SAND STORM <br /> <br />All through the sultry and humid day, <br />The sky had grown angry with reddish grey! <br />And the evening suddenly became very still, <br />As an eerie silence crept within! <br />When suddenly from the sky came rushing out, <br />As if wild hounds have been let loose by the <br />angry Gods, <br />There came the raging, ravaging, sand storm! <br /> <br />Lashing the tree tops and smashing window <br />panes, <br />Uprooting old trees by road side and lanes! <br />Ravaging and railing with its destructive force, <br />Blew the angry and relentless sand storm! <br />As papers and packets and old withered leaves, <br />Flew around like threadless kites on this summer's <br />eve! <br />My thoughts, desires and dreams, <br />Flew helter-skelter with the winds up high! <br />Like rudderless ships without direction, <br />With the wirlwind in its maddening motion, <br />With dust in my hair, in my eyes and mouth, <br />As the sand storm raged all around and about! <br /> <br />And after some time like a spent out force, <br />The storm abated as night drew close! <br />With dust in my hair, in my eyes and mouth, <br />And a coolness prevailing all around! <br />Dust am I, and to dust I shall return, <br />Once I wake up from my earthly trance! <br />And with the raging sand storm I shall rage <br />one day, <br />To join in this maddening dance in the month <br />of May! <br /> -Raj Nandy <br /> New Delhi <br /> 16 Jun 08<br /><br />RAJ NANDY<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sand-storm/
