A Letter to Rain

A Letter to Rain

First, I long for you,

And you make me wait.

Slowly, I feel, you're finally here to quench my thirst.

You drop a hint,

I can smell a whiff of your tantalizing perfume,

the fresh scent of the moist earth.

Then you hover over me,

Showing off your puffy grey and black dress,

the clouds.

Your drizzles embrace me very slowly,

First my hair, my lashes, my nose to my lips,

Then trickling down my neck gently to my bosom, and down my body.

From my shoulders to my arms, to the very tips of my fingers,

Tingling the tiny pores of my skin.

I want more.

Now your raindrops get bigger,

They lightly fall and graze my body

But my happiness gets bigger too.

I'm euphoric, like a child,

Jumping in puddles, so wild, so wild.

I shriek with joy!

You intensify.

Your pebble-like raindrops hurt me.

But I don't want to go yet.

I stop my shrieking at once,

and look around me.

People are already conscious of you and your outburst,

and trying to hide their dull faces under umbrellas and buildings and things,

frantically prancing around everywhere.

Some are staring into some void,

Some are anxious, cursing your arrival

Only little kids, like me, are enjoying every drop of you, to the fullest.

Drenched completely to the very core of my body,

I think of you.

How you first make me sensual,

Making me wait long,

Then you make me childish,

As I whee and splash,

Then as you fall harder,

You make me realize things about you I never thought I'd think of,

Of how you make me so elated,

And others so anxious and blue.

How you are desperately needed and waited for,

By me, by lovers, by farmers, by rivers,

And how you are such an annoyance

to people who need to get somewhere.

You are like life,

Harsh and annoying,

But when I stand and tell you to drench me, falling harder and harder,

You make me blissful

I stop to dance, sing, feel, 

pausing the rest of my life when you're there.

You're a lover, a mother, a harbinger,

That this lonely blue planet supporting life in the vast cosmicity

Will be full of love, joy, life, and pain,

Earth will be blue

And everything will be alright

As long as you lash down, 

As long as you are loved and you exist.

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Ramona Singh