I still can't remember to my god's glory, the poet who wrote
the lines in my mother tongue that can be roughly translated as…
"Life is a night rain.
It would all be over, by the time we get up"
(Jeevitham oru rathri mazha
Nam unarumbozhekkumathu chornirikkum)
Every rain brings this couplet into my mind but always untagged
with the name of the poet. I am still looking for him to kiss the soil under his
foot. It rained heavily for two days in Abha and we got an additional day on
our spring break. In my six years stay in Abha, I have never seen such a big
shower on the top of the city before.
I feel like a lazy Sunday morning back home rained overnight.
Pouring memories on landscape of mind, leaving me totally wet in nostalgic reminiscence.
Splashing muddy water to …we used to tread on every puddle of water on our way and back to school. Either side of the road form a
kind of makeshift canal for us to build bunds and dams…It drives me crazy as I
stroll down the childhood lane.
Even today, it is an exhilarating exercise, interestingly in the mornings it rained all the night, to
visit my plants in the garden, wish them good morning, nurse the sulky ones to
smile and pat appreciatively the vigorous ones……as though I missed them all
night and was eagerly waiting for daybreak to join them. I know it does make a
difference in that day of both me and them. I do it as a kind of romantic ritual of my being.
The colors, moods, and emotional make up of rain do make me
think in tune…it was in a long light rainy night...one of my university friends'
father died. It was in the morning it
rained for days flooding all the low lying countryside, the news knocked our door that my
childhood friend died. It was a stormy with heavy rainfall midday, I caught
fever and tuck into blanket. It was on a stormy rainy evening before sunset I
shared an umbrella to walk to hostel. The
sun set half an hour early the evening as I heard it raining all of a sudden ……. It was monsoon and raining all days as I started a
new lease of life , we ride all the country on a bike having great time in life as never before and never again…lovely
lovely lovely...
