The air hot, hangs humid and dense <br />The earth’s waiting, all eager and tense <br />A pregnant cloud in the sky, roves <br />Across the suns feature it moves <br /> <br />Lighting display begins the show <br />Thunder in the rear, flaunt, to follow <br />The light slashes through the dull sky <br />Lighting hides the sun, a halo in the sky <br /> <br />The earth knew of the coming <br />Felt the proximity of the rain, arriving <br />It waited, with the patience of waiting <br />Ready, with the tolerance of the hoping <br /> <br />A soft drizzle, almost a haze <br />Tender drops, as mist displace <br />The sun shades the endeavors <br />Of the rain coming down, in light showers <br /> <br />The sprinkle pushes up dust dry <br />Earth jumps, eager to meet the rain try <br />Small freckles form on the ground, blemish <br />Leap as the water drops in a flourish <br /> <br />Perfume, the wet earth disseminate <br />The taste, that fresh aroma of love made <br />Settle back as it wafts thru the atmosphere <br />See the earth under the flow tremble and quiver <br /> <br />Like a lover starved of love, known unseen <br />The earth opens itself, sinks as if in a dream <br />It bears the onslaught impressive, no emotion giving <br />The rain pulls down trees, litter of lovers preceding <br /> <br />The rain builds its crescendo, screaming shrieking <br />The earth bears the agony with only a deep shudder <br />The rain recedes, a lover spent with fury of love making <br />The earth bears the hurts and the pains in love giving <br /> <br />I have watched this mating many a time <br />A voyeuristic pleasure it is all the time <br />The life as it is spent, to make way for the new <br />A love that comes and is renewed anew <br /> <br />Do I love once or many more <br />I ask of me, this again, once more.<br /><br />O Sudhir Janardhanan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/chasing-the-monsoon/
