Saudade #1--By Raamesh Gowri Raghavan--India

Saudade #1

At first the distant mountain-tops

Fade into the coming rain cloud

And then the hills nearer to

My village draw their misty veil.

At last it pours over my home.

Silent's the square, empty the shops,

The street's bereft of all its crowd

Excepting for the luckless few

Who seek shelter to no avail.

At last it pours over my home.

Thus freed from care about their crops

That bloom and thrive under the shroud

My village came to life anew.

Their joyous shouts do ring out loud

- But I have strayed from all I knew

Accursed to roam from vale to vale.

Though I regret all that I threw

There is one reason not to wail -

At last it pours over my home.

Raamesh Gowri Raghavan moonlights as an award-winning copywriter by day and daylights as an award-wanting poet by night. He thinks he is funny, but his friends vehemently disagree.