Written by: Ishan Adhikari - 23023, Grade XI
Posted on: 10 December, 2021
Sound asleep, I was on the bed that night
when all of a sudden a cool breeze hit me.
I don’t know if I woke up in fright,
But the thunder definitely made my sleep flee.
The flashes of light hit my eye.
And then I realized that the rain was coming.
I wish I could go outside and fly,
to be able to see how the clouds were drumming
The sky was loud and the flashes were bright
and only then, the rain started to fall.
It was not just a random rainy night,
as it was one where I didn’t sleep at all
Listening to the melody of the rain that came,
was when I sank into my world of seclusion.
It wasn’t of course the rain to blame,
for projecting my mind with such an illusion
Diving into the ocean of my thoughts,
I don’t know where I was headed that time.
But I remember I couldn’t get my head across,
the questions whose answers I couldn’t find.
Each drop of rain had a story to tell.
I wish I could hear them all at once
But I couldn’t even count how many fell,
to taste the soil, they were in a rush.
I was thinking all that laying on my bed all alone.
I don’t know why I was in a pensive mood.
What was happening to me I was unknown,
when I realized that to the moment I was glued.
I was picking myself up from my thoughts
When the light from sun enlightened my face
A gust of wind again ,
But this time with the morning’s dress.
The sun was shining and the rain had stopped.
I realized that it was morning already.
There was no darkness that was left behind,
Now to have a great day I was all ready.
