The Restlessness

It was smiling since morning,
and it seemed the rains bade adieu
but suddenly the sky looked sad,
a sea of clouds welled up in the horizon,
birds were swiftly turning homeward,
a pall of grief, so breathtakingly beautiful,
fell on a part of the earth,
The two temples on two sides of the road
declared that
God was still there,
What will happen if we reached home safe,
What will go wrong if
we are caught up in a downpour,
the stranger asked,
and there was an eternal hunger in
his eyes, to be one
with the greens, the water,and
the sky.
The brooding, nonchalant bull stood undeterred,
he was to run for shelter, but later,
The water under the bridge was swirling
in rapid motion,
There was again a flood, but in
another river,
the sufferers were the same, earthlings,
The sky looked down threateningly,
Still painfully beautiful,
But it still didn't rain