Antithetical

As it rained cats and dogs on my rooftop

Dreamt a dream, as soon as I dozed off

Stepped into a world of whimsical magical

Surprisingly antithetical

Here everything other than human beings

Had five senses and a mind as if they were human beings

But here the humans no more were owners

Of any of the five senses or had intellectual powers.

Here birds spoke different languages many

Here animals played instruments uncanny

Here flowers laughed and cried too

Here trees walked and performed step-dance too

Here rain poured measured as per necessity

Here snowfall ensured no occurrence of tragedy

Here rivers flowed and diverged intelligently

Here waves gulped down Tsunamis as if something tasty

Here mountains acted like protective strong fathers

Here valleys acted like home-makers and caring mothers

Here flora helped to cooked dishes fancy

Here fauna were earners for every and any

Here festivals and seasons as one all celebrated

While humans stood sad, stand-still dumbfounded

Wishing they too had power to see, speak and think

Wishing they too could move, feel, eat and drink

Boom! a loud crackle in the sky must have woke me up

From this out of the blue dream and I was quite shaken-up

Found rain water all around me as I stood up

Life once again with water logging, I knew will disrupt

My dream may have been, just an abnormal dream

What if this was a reality and not just one-off dream

Imagine if we turned into hills or valleys forever

 Visualize if we became soil or rocks forever

We are blessed and bestowed with abilities priceless

Almighty blessed us with capabilities precious

But many of our acts we do, are just not right

Then, later it becomes too late to put things right

Our habits to throw thrash any and every where

Block drainages, dirty roads then act unaware

We may not hold remote-control to control rainfall

But some good habits can avoid water-logging after all

Do nothing to harvest as and when we get scant rain

When rainfall is late or too heavy, we do nothing but complain

Wish, others too could dream my unusual dream

Others too appreciate what we have is nothing short of a dream

Lots of efforts and planning is required to make up

To reduce the damage that we have managed to cook up

For our mankind and our nature, this prayer I do pray

Wake up and shake up to shape up our environment back to its glory days

When kids without worry could freely splash in puddles of rain

When at home we enjoyed fritters and ginger tea with first rain

When forgetting the raincoat to school was a happy occasion

For we as children got a chance to get wet while returning home

When a chance to dance in the rain with beloved was much awaited

When after scorching summer rainy season rarely got delayed.