Thursday, April 14, 2011

Ah! O Nature!



The powerful gust of Nature
Strikes across the windows
With the door straining at its hinges;
With the panes rattling;
O Wind! Thou blowest with thy fullest might!

I can feel thee through my veins,
Through my heart thou flowest
Thou moveth me today.

The leaves rustle and the sky roars,
The river speeds and forms ripples.
I throw myself across the verandah witnessing thee;
Whilst thee showest thy nature.

The cumulonimbi close in, growing denser.
It’s time for a shower,
It’s time for a break.

O Wind O! Who’s greater than you?

Now the rain pelts down hard,
Wetting my hands.
The droplets trickle down the leaf margins,
The droplets dissolve the dust.

The rain arrives with regalia,
Powering outright.
The world witnesses its majesty
And its might.

O Rain! O Rain!

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O WIND!



You denude all the trees in my sight,
And all of them wear out;
But I embrace myself to one,
Protecting it from you.

But you blow on and on,
I have nothing to do.
A time shall come
When my tree shall also die,
When I shall wander in loneliness.

When the faded memories of the tree
Shall strike me,
When its leaves shall comfort me,
It might be too late;
Who knows if it’s the last winter for my tree?

In an away land,
When memories similar to my tree meet me,
I writhe in pain, hoping a last hope.
The last hope flickers like a weak flame
And duly prone to the fierce wind.
Why wind why?

And so I ask now,
“O Time! Why are you so cruel?
O Life! Why are you so painful?”

And so shall you blow,
And so shall I twist in agony,
And so shall we drag on sluggishly,
And so do we have to accept Life’s travail.
But yet we have to move on,
Happily bearing your cruelty.

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