Summer Woes

Summer has been bad this year. There seems to be some natural calamity or the other happening everywhere in the world. Global warming they say is due to man …. Still it remains unclear how much of this is man-made and how much just part of an evolutionary cycle.

This is the first time in the last three years of my stay in Dubai that one has not timed a trip to India during the summer. So I’m sitting here while back home everyone seems to be enjoying the rain.

I dislike the summer here, the heat gets to you … It’s bad enough that I’m a fresher at blogging but the heat is slowing me down even more and it’s an effort to think about what to write for my post. So I just made up a small verse as it came to me, about the Dubai summer.

The summer sun

in an arid land

soaring temperatures

scorching the sand …

The heat frowns

the greens fade

to yellows, and

sometimes browns.

The wind blows

clouds of dust,

cover your face

you must.

Shadows shrink

Sweat begins

one walks in shade

of tall buildings.

Stay home or

step out to malls

summer surprises

awaits all.

Laughter and

excitement fills the air,

as people throng

to such a fair.

While labour toils

at construction sites

leaving one saddened

at their plight.

Many go on vacation

Other stay here

Not much to cheer

for those in station!

One looks to the sky

to see a lone bird fly

hoping for rain

but all in vain.