An Olive Morning

It rained all night Slow drizzle like sweet dreams streaming in droopy eyes Till a thunderstorm bursts with lightning like a bad dream Eyes open with a shock, traumatized sleepy mind tries to peek in darkness Lightning provides a terrifying flash of light not to console but to send further chills I tried to go back to sleep but thunder keeps me awake The window was open to let the gentle breeze in Instead it sends shrieking wind with loud noise Rain and lightning was making the night sinister I could hear it in bird's sound It was not the joyful chirping to greet the morning But fearful wailing Were their nests rain soaked? I wondered! Birds aren't the only one Millions of millions have their roofs leaking in a night like this Some don't even have roofs We cry out for natural disasters Yet Man made calamities are creating tent houses faster than Nature could Numbers are increasing day by day Safe areas are barricaded with barb wire Properties have more value than human life. All of us struggle to create wealth with hard work and fair earnings But for some there are no just wages Only laws to prevent the saturation of wealth wealth and power concentrated and consolidated among few Most accept the system Not all have the fighting spirit A day goes by just to make their own living we see, we hear, we feel the hard ship from a distance Like drenching rain and the wailing birds in terrifying darkness But dark night and rain is still comforting Strangely and surely moments of peace creep into suffering. Life offers much more than what happens In our day to day life It Offers an olive morning Extending into azure sky of mid day And receding in to a persimmon sunset A desire and hope to live and enjoy the realm of possibilities. I drift in and out of my senses The thunder and lightning disappeared Sun's rays started filtering from nylon mash of clouds The cheerful energy of dawn was in the air Rain soaked lawn was looking greener In that olive morning.