None other than him
matters here at the noon.
The sun is an out and out autocrat
the sky, he singularly rules,without
any apology to anyone.
He has banished all the clouds;
not even the faint trace of
fluffy, milky white strands
seemingly unstoppable
till the far horizon.
This is when his hidden
intention to scorch all at sight
is at it's atrocious peak,
which would lead to his decline.
Under the low hanging sky
the earth parched dry,
is a cry for mercy.Sun now is
a roaring water fall of heat
waves lash one after the other.
The village of thatched mud huts
stand dazed, like it's women
in this ascending symphony of pain
not feeling any difference of tune,
this is what it always been.
It's a living miracle, it still exists
fighting the vagaries of winds and the sun
not willing to collapse as dunes of dust,
which would have been a better solution.
The little girls from a school
the only secret this village keeps,
in midday break pour out
like ants from hidden anthills,
scurrying to all directions, trying
to cheat the wind spitting fire.
A frail old woman, her skin
sun scorched,dark,
deeply furrowed and folded
a true face of resistance
life capable of in the face of
the attack of armies of obliteration,
sweating all over, sits under a tamarind tree
all twigs and only few patches of weak green,
cobbling for a living, as if it is her day last here.
Face to face with a village almost in all time drout