I look forward to you,

Every day, every night these days.

And when you come, you come drop by drop

Like falling from a tap not so tightly shut,

But you come.

And keep on coming for hours together,

Or maybe for just a minute or two at times.

But sometimes you drop down so heavily,

Maybe because of an earthquake in the heaven.

And you splash on me so hard,

Like a stone pelted in a river,

And I take you inside me,

Just as a river does;

Calmly....silently.

I try not to leave you,

But it seems you do,

You try to leave me for weeks and months,

And my friends out their too.

My friends who need you to live on,

Not people like me,

Who just need you to have fun and get away from your friend Mr. sun.

I request you, I pray to you,

Please go and meet my friends.

They really really need you.

You'll find quite a few,

If you go around my lovely country....

And you know something?

They do all sorts of things to call you;

They get dirty in the mud and sing songs to the frogs.

But you seem to be too busy to hear them,

Too busy troubling my other friends by flooding their homes.

Please listen to me,

Please divide yourself equally amongst all of us.

I''ll be grateful.

Thank you......Thank you Rain.

-Prerna