BOMBAY: A Return After 21 Years

And then the rain comes down,

but gently, as though it knows 

not to carry a typhoid - 

In the heat, the dripping heat,

I am miles away from the peace 

that comes dropping slow;

But here I find a different peace,

the kind that took 21 years - 

I say ‘took’ and not ‘takes’,

Because it could just be me 

that moves at mammoth pace,

a slow pachyderm, if that’s the right term.

©Shaista Tayabali, 2018

For Dverse Poets