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The Affair Between Rain and Love

Rain, Rain, Rain,
Oh, dear sky, you rain!
Soak deeply the earth and the mountains
And so also sympathise
The abjected lover’s puzzled brain.

The drops of your rain appear
As if streams of tears
Running out of a pair of sunken eyes
Reverberating in the air is
The voice of a forlorn lover.

The loud rumbling sound of
fired thunders
Come as beating of drums
Towards commemorating the showering distress
Of a disoleate and dreary love.

The tears of the lidded eyes
Soak the earth
With a silent intoxication
At par with the monsoon rains

But alas!
Someone somewhere dances in rhythms
With exalted cheers, induced to start dancing
On the beat of the song of the vault of heaven.

A soaked earth thus cries in silence
On par with the ink-soaked paper of a poet.
Where words vanish
To describe in verse the essence of a story unsaid
Or a pain not lamented
But allows the love to take refuge.

Picture design, Anumita Roy

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Rajashree Mohapatra
Rajashree Mohapatra, born in Odisha, has received her master’s degree in 'History', and 'Journalism and Mass Communications' from Utkal University. She is a teacher by profession. Being a postgraduate in 'Environmental Education and Industrial Waste Management' from Sambalpur University, she has devoted herself as a social activist to the cause of social justice, environmental issues, and human rights in remote areas through non-governmental organisations. Poetry, painting, and journalism are her passions.

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