Rain Delay Poem by Mehta Hasmukh Amathaal

Rain is uncertain and delayed,
Weather forecast and message relayed,
Days are very hot and in home stayed,
Gloomy picture and everybody dismayed,

Hot season with frequent power cuts,
No good service and “if” and “buts”
Sun rays direct in my holed huts,
No means but forced to stay puts,

Rain God is displeased with world,
Wastage of water more with relation cold,
Fight for water in many parts,
People store more and look so smart,

Whole world economy is in disarray,
If monsoon is delayed and little away,
Earth is torn apart with surface dry,
As if newly wed bride making cry,

If request to be made then with strong resolve,
No wastage of water with problem solve,
Stopping and storing efforts involve,
Not polluting it with chemical dissolve,

Ozone depletion may invite the trouble,
Many diseases with medicines incurable,
Unseasonable rains with devastating flood,
Destruction everywhere with spilling blood,

Stopping of water flow at dam’s site,
Inviting the wrath from local's fight,
Are we not depriving their statutory rights?
Deserting fields for proving the light

Why do we want to perish the mankind?
Unhygienic waste in water with method unkind,
Never in other countries violation of rules,
Buffalos and cows take bath with bulls,

High rise in temperature with heat waves,
Diseases many to spread and way paves,
Are we not digging our own grave?
Greed and lust and just to crave,

Sometimes in abundance and sometime scarce,
Tidal waves rise high and land coerced,
Houses washed and population flee,
Nature’s fury we understand but can’t see