Sob! The rain sobs!
like the sobbing depressed mind
sob by sob it rains.
Downpour
like hail stones bursting despair
and pouring grief
knitting the torn sleeves of mind
My song roots
in rain that has no end.
a poem, an unbroken thread of
words
and words
and words
pours the rain
flows the song
wet everywhere.
Children in rain, rainy children
search for me
Drenched completely,
soaked into my songs
wet smiles on their lips
the lines that I wrote
rain again
flows again
drop by drop
word by word
threaded through
the song flows.
(Translated from Kannada by Chitra Panikkar)
