Rain

A drop at first
Just a test check
Then another came down
To give it company
Lightly then it touched
My cheek like a spray
From falling waterfall
A light brush with
A peacock’s feather
The touch was cool
Mingled with the breeze
And the distant scent
Of land kissed by rain
A kiss at first so light
Then it trickled down
It came as drops of pearls
Shattering into thousand
Diamonds on touching earth
It soaks it to the full
The earth its heat subdued
And thirst slaked revels
Wearing the rain water
On it as a silver sheen
The rain it falls through
The leaves, the fronds
It falls on river, pond
On lotus leaves and all
It comes tumbling down
Like sheets of liquid wall
A descent of opaque
I can’t see beyond my hand
The rain it came dressed
In crystals and pearls
And dazzling swaroski too
To the sound of drums
And flashing serial lights
To dances with me in its clasp!