two rain crazy lunatics

i woke at the urgent calling of my roommate.......'it's raining...use ur raincoat as i'm taking ur umbrella'..i was still groggy...although it was morning 10:30,i was sound slleping..the constant steady sound of rain was acting as a tranquilizer..but hearing the news i really woke up as i left my raincoat a few days ago in my lab n was always forgetting to get it back..my typical laid back attitude...anyway the only option left to us now was to share my umbrella to school....i got ready at a lightning speed....n then two of us set out with one umbrella between us to school..both of us took a change of dress with us..it was raining really hard..we took precaution not to get more wet than necessary....new york city's drainage system is not equipped to deal with this kind of rain..so the road was turned into small rivulets...n we had to work really hard to avoid them..i was wearing a pair of flipflops as they r easy to remove once when i reach school..all of a sudden one of it took flight..it washed down in one of the rivulets and took a ourse of its own...forgetting all about getting wet we ran after it......by rthe time my adventurous flipflop returned to me both of us were soaked to bone..forgetting all about the umbrella now we made our way to school......using the now functionless umbrella as a parasol we just made our way to school singing at the top of our voice ........by d time we reached school both of us wear thoroughly drenched in the rain......but gay as a jay....made our way to lab..changed our dresses and set to work..but will remember this morning forver..one happy carefree moring when we bathed in rain without a care for the world...........

solitary trail

Darkness slowly descends on the earth
The solitary trail looks lonely
It was supposed to look lonely though
The setting sun is bathing the path
With the last rays of the day
Cuddling the track in a comforting way
To prepare it for the approaching dark
The trail looks sorry to me
As if it feared to be forlorn
I felt drawn to it like a magnet
I went there to walk in the trail
Taking one step at a time
I kept a foot on the trail
And felt myself sucked its charm
I felt I was entrapped in the trail forever
The trail and I became one
The solitary trail and the lonely traveller

fire works

4th of july...american independence day......i opened my eyes in the morning ,eager to find a bright sunny day but my eyes met with a slate gray sky...the kind of weather that makes your mood off...no matter watever u do to prevent it...i woke up with a heavy heart..i was hoping i could have the day off but my senior asked me to be in the lab at 10 and she was planning to conduct some experiments which will take the whole day..anyway i went there,grumbling all the way....i was in luck though..it turned out that even she wanna go somewhere so she let me go within 40mins...came back home....it was a depressing day as i told earlier.....i was supposed to go out with my friends to see the fireworks in FDR ...i didnt want to..i was feeling so miserable..all i wanted to do was to head back home and lick my old wounds......the depressing weather had opened a flood gate in me which i generally keep shut securely........well i could not do that.......when i went back some of my friends were online so i started talking to them right away in conference........i was feeling good.....i generally try to avoid facing my own emotions....its better to run away from them than go face them....face a lot of questions whose answer i dont hv,never had...n no idea ll ever get them or not...life is such a tangled mass of confusion and unanswered questions..anyway enough of this philosophical crap...lets head back to my 4th of july experience...so finally at my friend's insistence i reluctantly agreed to accompany them to the fireworks..by that time rain had started......not the thunderstorm......which blows away all the clouds from the sky as well as from minds but the slow and steady pitter patter which makes a person even more depressed ,solitary.......we reached FDR at around 7...the seaside was completely filled with people....the hustling bustling crowd......it was still raining..but nobody seemed to mind..we were soaked through our bones...was cold,miserable and hungry...but still everyones happy,expectant,jubilant
..waiting for something......we stood there for straight two hours....i started feeling weary..my whole body ached..i was longing to sit down..somewhere,anywhere...but there wasnt even enough room to stand ,let alone sit...i did not bring any warm clothes..i was shivering with cold...all i wanted to do was to to go home...just then my friend hold me..she was holding me close to her..thus transferring hr body heat to me..a futile effort to make me feel warm...a friends gesture to make me feel better..suddenly i felt the warmth returning to my body..i felt happy probably without any reason...like the others even i started looking at the sky expectantly ..probably even the organizers understood my sudden mood change coz the sky was suddenly lit up with fireworks.....i stood enthralled...drinking in the glory of the unexpected sight unfurled in front of me....the fireworks seemed beckoning to me..inviting me to feel myself as a part of the crowd..trying to tell me that i belong here........i stood there mesmerized...all my worries forgotten..all my tensions at the back of my mind...i just stood there
..alone yet a part of the crowd ....................