NATURE

All About Clouds

And, Perhaps, More?

Some clouds, travel listlessly like a meandering fog, a blob, tip-toeing near me, softly knocking on the broken windows of my heart, probably peeping through, lingering for a moment, hoping to take me with it, without a drop of thought in the over-thoughtful mind, but does it manage to take me? take my restless soul for a much-needed, soul-searching ride?

Some clouds, like that little one, up top, are fearful of the lightning and the storm, that’d take it to places unknown, or make it rain, at a place, where it doesn’t want to rain down, it wants to rain down on that barren, dry land, awaiting a drop, since eternity, it wants to see the happy faces when the first drop falls on their dry cheeks, and amalgamate together with their tears, their happy tears.

Some clouds, stand still for a moment or two, stagnant, still, as if in a dream space, waiting, feeling that wonderful essence, of non-movement, enjoying every bit of it, before the arrival of the boisterous winds, and off it goes again over lands, unknown, not knowing its destination, but hopeful, but hopeful.

Some clouds, like that pink cumulonimbus, staring back at itself, trying very hard not to, not get disintegrated, separated, segregated into multiple beings, to stay together with itself, crying, wishing, wanting, but again, the winds, have some other plans.

Well, if you were a cloud, would you like to fall like multilingual tears, from high up in the greyish-blue sky, splashing in a pool full of water, swimming with the colourful fish, from rivers to the sea, and then jump, from high waterfalls, amidst the rainbow-lapped surrounding, intermingle with droplets from unknown lands, become an ocean, and then, finally, evaporate back into those clouds, ready to do it all over again? ready to feel it all over again?

Somsubhra Banerjee, 2023

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