One (un)fine day...
It was sunny and sultry... sweaty and sticky...
Weather was playing games ... having fun seeing us squirm and swelter...
Earthlings had short tempers and long streams of sweat on themselves...
Spearheading the group of the frustrated and irritated souls was who else but me...
Suddenly out of no where I felt a shade creep up on me...
A welcome shade which did not seem to end... made as if just for me...
Surprised I looked up and saw him...
My tiny little sweet friend whom I met every July...
Smiling down and me and winking...
Tugging at that unruly wind that always took him away from me...
Trying to win... and (despite the history) with me praying silently that he does...
And voila! the Gods heard me! the wind tasted defeat for once...
For the first time since forever, I had my friend with me...
A friend who I always knew was there... Someone whose presence was always felt...
And finally!!! he won ... we were together... we were smiling and celebrating...
We started talking ... he spoke in his soft, misty tone giving me eternal peace...
He seemed to understand me even before I made an attempt at speaking...He just knew it all!!!
We continued to converse... in a language without words... a language without any need for words... it was as if we knew each other since forever and still was this the first time??
Wasn't he always around when I danced in the rains??
But.. wasn't he around at the wrong time now!!! It was April...
Just as the thought entered me... he bid me farewell... saying it was lovely to see me from up above the world... but the duty beckoned and we dutifully parted...
Having talked to him and experienced a whole new world in the company of a cloud...
A cloud that was always there and will be above me... watching, smiling, reassuring and just being...
