That day

That day there was a dense dark cloud in the sky

The breeze was strong and it made the dust and the leaf run helter-skelter, and fly

The trees unfurled their leaves, quivered, shook off the droplets to see those men walking by
And oh how beautifully the flowers bended with an urge to satisfy

About those men - one was drenched, one rain-clad
 Another was happy and the other was a bit sad

One forgot to wear her kohl-liner and the butterfly-garland that she had
One was forgetful in love and wandered like a lost nomad

That day it rained sharp and also pretty heavily

But the day was sweet and was smiling at all coyly

Then the waterlogged lanes and platforms sang in tune fostering fantasy
Seeing them the red and blue umbrella whispered music in rapt rhapsody

Some noticed; some ignored; some were in a hurry to walk away fast

And no one knew who was hiding a shattered soul and who killed someone’s dream with a brutal thrust.