A Lesson To Learn...

Moody miserable looking day
The sun preferring to remain
Hide since the first ray;
Sky black-faced morose
Sends down thunderous cursing roars…
Hooligan wind freed, scoops in
To drive out hapless dry leaves
Off the lonely pavements;
Chilling my spine now it begins
To rain, out there cats and dogs…

I look out of my windowpane
The world outside now is seen-
Drained of life deserted forlorn
Left alone to face the onslaught of rain;
Nobody around here? Oh! I find her close…

Right on the top of my neighbor's roof
I notice a crow on the eaves board edge
Sitting as if in a trance
Sodden, unmindful of the outside chaos
Created by the sky atop…

I wonder what she is doing there!
She could have moved yards to the tree over
And sought shelter from rains' torture
But no, bathing in the horrendous showers
She sits with a spooky eye…

I wait; watch again to locate her sight
I find her look towards a hole,
A hole large, to where the runoff rush
Passing the yard, the pavements and the bush
And where the flow gets sucked up

And all of a sudden, I see her take off,
Stoop and pick up a sizable frog
That jumps out of the water-rich hole
Having her food on her beak she now flies
Towards a branch of that nearby tree…

Thunder roaring, boisterous is the wind
Rain continues to come down non stop
I learn a wonderful truth of life
From this wise bird- a lesson on how to pick
One's daily food, a lesson essential all us for…

11 06 2008