{"id":17,"date":"2012-05-03T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-12-04T13:02:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T13:02:45","slug":"summer-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amaragarwala.com\/blog\/summer-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Rains.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Looking at the rains today.. I remembered a summer long ago. &nbsp;It would rain almost every day, just at dusk, like it is raining now. &nbsp;They were painful times.. and my heart would feel heavy. &nbsp;Yet, the pain would inevitably bring old memories, which would caress the soul with its balm of&nbsp;loneliness&nbsp;and a strange comfort that I would never be alone again. &nbsp;Pain can be a strange companion.. haunting but loyal, perhaps it never leaves us completely.   <a title=\"domain name appraiser\" HREF=\"http:\/\/www.domainicius.xyz\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\" >how to appraise a domain name<\/a> . &nbsp;It is strange when we embrace its cold nothingness.. for often its our&#8217;s forever, teaching us golden lessons which are priceless.<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Summer Rains..<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>It would rain that summer when dusk fell,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Pensive I would watch tiny rivulets swell,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Flowing rainwater&#8230; carrying little dry twigs,&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>And the trees wearing drenched green wigs.<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>The wild wind whispering songs of past,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Spraying droplets the clouds would cast,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Thunder sounding like the drums of heaven,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Darkness shrouding the stars like craven.<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Sounds on earth as the rains did pour,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Reminiscing thoughts long lost in yore,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Craving for souls long gone from my life,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Just grovelling around in pain and strife.<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Only thoughts remain of that sultry summer,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>When thunder sounded like a crazed drummer,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>The lightning had revealed demons of dark,<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>Deep scars within which left it&#8217;s mark.&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #666666; 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