Waiting for My Return

Pouring monsoon rain
Clear dark clouds laughing thunderously
Wetting the earth with heavenly love
Leaving sweet aroma in the air

Sitting by the school bus window
Waiting for it to arrive home
Slamming breaks it left me at my destination
I run back quickly inside the four walls
Keep the backpack, change my dirty school uniform
Off I go to the roof waiting for my arrival

I jump with joy
Splashing puddle of water on myself
Making my paper boat to sail on the ripples of puddle
Here it goes off sailing waiving goodbye
Through the stormy pouring rain
Standing the testing waters
Until I meet at the other end to welcome back home

Singing songs I loved
Distorting every lyric
But who cares no one is listening
I dance to the tunes of musical rain
Dripping wet from head to toe
Enjoying every droplet that strokes me
Tingling all my senses
Caressing my little soul

I hear a little voice calling my name
It’s mom yelling to come back within the walls
Ignoringly I hear no sound other than of rain
I turn and she’s now standing right behind me
“Sorry mom”, teasingly I say, “didn’t hear you calling for me”

Daddy then makes an entry
Smilingly says to me, “it’s monsoon”
Rain will pour again
Right now, princess let me dry your hair
So you can go change to satisfy your growling tummy
It’s been hours of enjoyment
That you shall revive tomorrow

So I send a flying kiss
To part away only for a little while
Let the boat sail through the rain alone
Take it’s own twists and turns without a captain
For as long its heart would desire so
Until tomorrow when I shall come to back
To attend the ceremony of pouring rain

Made another boat to hold the memories
To sail back to those days again
Where I’d left my boat long time ago
Waiting for my return….
My return, that never shall happen
For time has passed on
Taking with it the most precious one
Without whom I’m nothing, I’m no one…
The boat has gone sailing leaving me far behind…
Very far away from my hero, my DAD
Pouring rain never come back again
For you bring the memories in my eyes floating
Where I build my boat for sailing back to the times
I’ve left behind waiting for my return…