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Mountains and clouds
Layers one beyond another.
Seem to me in conversations
Of deep joy, serenity and
friendship.
The cloud moves, with the windy
airs, laughing in the sun's glare.
The mountain admires her for snowy
feathers and the occasional wistful stares.
Mountain wait to hear the cloud's impatient
outbursts and
sometimes cringes when she's moody and
treats him impaired.
The trees, flowers, shrubs request
the mountain to make up,
That the cloud is pretty, make her
stay for us,
They say,
when you two meet, and she stays
over that's the time
We remember the rains poured the
night over and
the rainbow announced what had happened
in the night's gown.
Mountain longing for the cloud's
company
Waits to hear her voice, and
requests the wind to slow down.
But for cloud, he is just one among
many on the ground.
Onetime, he had helped, consoled
her and she had cried in his arms to free herself of worries and doubts.
That was the day the rainbow
described and the affair, the trees, and shrubs ascribed.
The mountain admires the cloud,
But is aware of his groundedness.
He waits for the cloud that will
come to stay on its own, with him.
Not on a windy day or a dark night
with nobody to go,
But for the one who chooses to stay
for days and nights.
For he knew a cloud exists,
who will help him let loose his
inhibitions,
where conversations will last
generations.
Who will assure him when in doubt?
Mountain unassuming, caring for his
family of the green shroud,
waits for his companion cloud.
And I stand admiring him from the corner of this window.
How he lets go, with stillness and
no desire to hold...
A lesson I learned looking through my window.
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