Well, it was a very pleasant evening yesterday with the weather going completely beserk and we, thirsty souls, being quenched with torrents of rain. The Rain God surely was very happy that he condescended to my wishes, of many months, and gave me the perfect setting to savour and enjoy life. To just feel and lick it, literally! As the drops fell on my palm and I looked up to the heavens, I suddenly realized that, perhaps, the beauty of Nature is so vast, so infinite and so indescribable, that drinking from it throughout our life would still leave us half-full and half-empty.

 It was while savouring the rain, and the wild breeze, whose coolness can put the world’s best air conditioners to shame, that I had a strange and naughty thought of the wind playing with me and it was a alluring hide-and-seek game. So, the wind really, felt to be a seductress, trying to make me submit to her. The play of lovers and the play of nature is what I have put in the following verses. I hope you enjoy them and, feel the saundhi-si-khushboo of the first rain as you savour these lines. 

And I give in to her charms!

 This wind, Oh! Her passionate coolness, blows wild and free,
Touching me, she enticingly murmurs a delirious moan.
Her fingers softly run through my ruffled hair,
As she gently caresses my lips with her own.

 No niagra is tantamount to the deluge of emotions
Flowing through my heart; The cup runneth over.
Like the hair on my skin, I stand dazed
Dark clouds gather above, I am left with no cover.

With an indignant air, she forces herself upon me
An ecstatic ‘me’ succumbs and hungrily responds.
Oh! How the heart flutters in fiery restlessness!
This temptation seems more mysterious than all earthly bonds.

 Before she comes down blazing, with the rain,
And engulfs me longingly in her arms.
Let me savour her too, reveal the depths of my love;
Slowly, very slowly, she seduces me; And I give in to her charms.

 I know you liked them. I am still completely intoxicated by what I have savoured. You too are I guess!

Till the next time, Goodbye! Siddhartha