Poem: Send Down The Rain

Bloated with Messiah Praise
as honour peers before him to lead!
Eyes full of hunger —
come embrace this drought off our lips
and swamp us in this wilderness
on your period with heavy rush
from your heart flow

Ever since the wake of a new republic
we've been buried in the soil —
sown in the field by vain toil of
hopeless hands without moral light
and political will to cast down
this dryness by sign of the rain

Send down the rain —
let it fall on these ridges of dreams
and rekindle strength in the thin flat blade
of the worn hoe of the labourers
and build us a river bed for the
people to dream bubbles of bloom
of blueberries falling in May

Let the day fall like a rain and
accompanied with a monsoon wind
bearing gifts of our plea for salvation —
steeping our thirst in the goodness
springing from the water-giving Rock

Of this hallowed cause
be your reign… as we send
down the rain!!!

The Poem: Rebel Written by Sreejita Kar