(based on my
childhood ordeal of being caught in a rain-storm under a rain tree… to divert
the fear, I imagined the tree speaking to me and this is what it seemed to say )
Hey little
one, trembling in the rain…
Rest the doubts… that rise in
your brain.
Why does this rainstorm, overwhelm you?
This earth is yours… and this sky is too!
Look at me - the rain tree…
that shelters you now
And the route of my roots, how
they plough
They go deep down, so that my
trunk may rise
But what matters more… is my
canopy size!
So often we find trees… that
grow very tall
But they have no shade, for the
seeker’s call…
Now you are sheltered… under me
- the rain tree
Can the truth of
interdependence set you free?
Learn from the little birds…
that rest and nest here
They too are drenched… but no
longer by fear!
When they are born… they too
shiver in the rain
But grow up to know… that it
will happen again
It isn’t about the rain, fright storms within
Fear grows larger… if belief is
lean
You got to believe… this fact to be true
That this earth is yours… and this sky is too!
Don't be submerged… in the
intensity of the rain…
Don't fret and tire out, under an illusory pain
The skies will clear, seven colours will gather...
Diverging from the spectrum… but staying together
Together we can create: the rainbow way...
From Mother Nature, don’t ever stray away...
The cloud burst, the thunder…
the scary storm
Are worse in the mind… when
there they form.
Hey little one, dance in the
rain…
Overcome fears that storm your
brain.
The eco-logical truth includes me and you
This earth is ours… and this sky is too!
-
Pravin K Sabnis (1988)
