Thunder cracks in dreary stone split skies. Jarred As the looming clouds, I am drenched in blues As I scrap the scribbled lines I learnt by heart For you. Another wasted sonnet fused By tears and cloudburst with pain. The storm Of my soul plays an aimless song again, A cyclone melody trapped by its form.
Fourteen lines rotate like a weather vane Searching for the direction I can’t find, While new rain in this constant streaming city Spirals the memories stuck in my mind. I’m left with the rhymes of strained self-pity
As I slowly trace the trickle of drops And wait inside for the storm to stop.
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