On a sluggish afternoon <br />A prolonged rain draws <br />The drizzling curtain <br />On my chilled window <br /> <br />Dark sorrowing clouds <br />Gather on my roof <br />Like marauding vultures <br />Preying On my dying spirit <br /> <br />Terror arrests the time <br />Ticking stifled to death <br />The Horrified cuckoo <br />Conceals in the clock <br /> <br />Tattered paper pleads <br />Not to ink it anymore <br />Pen slips out of hand <br />Refuses to note my pathos <br /> <br />Setting gloom kindles, <br />Thick soot of regrets <br />From core of hearth <br />Where anger had blazed <br /> <br />Exhaustion takes over <br />And I yield to sadness, <br />Teary eyes fixed on sky <br />Awaiting a streak of SUN….! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !<br /><br />Seema Aarella<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sun-33/
