It Horrifies Me Still Now.. Poem by PARTHA SARATHI PAUL

I was in a hurry back home
Just then things around changed.
It was heavy black all above
As if some ghosts will come and play.
All walking steps paced ahead
And wheels rolled with all might.
A storm rose and swept fast over
Everything that stood near and far.
Things in front and behind, left and right
Were shrouded with a very gloomy sight.
My heart was thundering when it flashed a light
And things grew dark as if one very early night.
Flights of birds head back their nests
On fairy wings in well-gathered zest.
A flock of dogs bark from the road-side shed
Lightening flashed again with bulged eyes blood-red.
I felt to have stuck up there for many many ages
And prayed all the prayers once uttered by our sages.
Then rushed down volleys of watery arrows
And gusts of frenzied blow greeted them with blows.
Now my heart was racing in a deep frozen fear
And I called up all the names of my near and dear.
Rain and wind made friends with one another
And they were such a terror that I still shudder.