RaInBOw

There was no sun in the sky, setting or otherwise on the 4th. The day started on a cloudy note and ended with an unexpected shower. Smug after the day's succesful completion of my supervision duties at college ( it being my first ever, I felt I was taking an exam. There are zillion things for a supervisor to do that require tremendous concentration and offer no place for errors. I had sweaty palms and I am sure the other 15 year olds in the room did too. What do they know about mine? :-), my rising sun and I headed to Thane to see Aai. That is precisely when it rained. And I saw my FIRST rainbow of this monsoon...Words fail me and hence this picture I managed to click from the car comes to my aid. This is what it looked like.



In this picture it resembles a shaft of light from a torch.......rainbow colored light emanating from a heavenly torch.

I rememberd a story I had read in my English texts when I was 7. It is firlmy etched, every word alongwith the pictorial depiction. A weeping sky looking towards the Earth, the two connected with a rainbow. I looked at U and said do you the know the sky is weeping? U listens, I think, because he doesn't say a word. Or maybe he just concentrates on the traffic happy that I entertain myself. It is missing its Earth. They were much in love and wanted to get married. But people on Earth felt they would have nowhere to go if the Earth and the Sky got married. Hence they schemed and plotted and the union of Earth and Sky was prevented. Each time we see a rainbow in the sky, it is the garland the Sky hurls towards the Earth. The garland he could not adorn his Earth with.
I have never stopped feeling guilty for being one of the "Earthlings"!