Monday, July 26, 2021

A Summer Day

 

A hot and humid

    summer day.

Maybe,
somewhat like

what firefighters feel

    standing near

crackling wildfires

weary

faces blackened.

The silent haze

reminds me
those afternoons in summer
of my Indian childhood.

Stillness then,

felt like everything
decided to hang its head

in idleness.

An ache

of carefree days
when afternoon heat

seldom mattered.

Not anymore.

Somewhere along,

we changed.

Want to dare
and step outside

once again

and play?

On this

summer day.

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