Rain
rain sobbing
like a depressed mind
downpouring with hailstones
bursting despair and pouring grief
knitting the torn sleeves of mind
a poem, an unbroken thread of
words
and words
and words
my verse
like rain
drench and contain
kids
who search me
remember
my song
rain drops on their lips
rain again
flows again
dropp by drop
word by word
Kannada poem by Mamta G Sagar, Translated by O. L. Nagabhushana Swamy