Here Comes the Rain

Just like a long lost dream

It comes out of nowhere

As I drown in the sweltering heat

Delirious in the turgid essence of sweats 

No one whispers in my ear

Silence burns like fire in my arid mind

Where rain ceaselessly breathes like an 

unbreakable spell of incantation 

An enigma seeks a simple code

which can't be decoded by the scorching sun

Over the horizon where clouds never come 

The sky brews its bluest ink

And smudges the canvas with nothingness

As the heatwave rolls over the earth 

Its skin blisters like boiling bubbles 

The parched trees keep shedding to stay bald

And the roots fumbling aimlessly for moisture

While I dream about rain in the flickering flame 

of an afternoon nap

It finally comes like a long-lost friend……….