Heavy Rain Ahead

Heavy rain for days, roads are deserted Shutters of the shops are down. People Are inside home; watching TV or playing Cards. Some pass time scolding children Who return from school soaked and making The floors slippery as water drips from Their dresses. Most of the houses keep Their doors closed. Grandma says thunder And lightening can come inside and kill. She mumbles prayers sitting in a wooden cot. Forecast is more rain to come. Trees have Their heads down like shameless convicts. Nests have fallen to the ground. Ground is Splattered with broken eggs. Birds have tears In their beady eyes. House wives are busy Cleaning lanterns and filling kerosene into Them. There may be a power cut. Trees have Fallen on wires snapping them. Old men feel Worried as they stare at the steady fall of Rain drops.Where from they get dry woods to Burn them. If they are dead. Dinner should be Finished.Kerosene has to be saved. Shops may Remain closed as the weather man has reminded.