Love In The Time Of Monsoon

The winding lane

In the drenched forest

Is your sweat running down on my body

2

The ?thunderstorms ripping off the clouds

are my moaning

after the gusting wind

3

The torrential rain slapping on the tin roof

Are my longings

Throbbing inside my rib cage.

4

The algae-studded porch

Is the remnant of the kisses

Of last night

5

The green smelled ivies

Are your meandering hands?

Singing songs of the first monsoon on my body.

(Moumita Alam is a poet from West Bengal.? Her poetry collection The Musings of the Dark is available on Amazon.)