Rain

Vikram Seth

The rain drips quietly down
The windowpane
through nightfall, midnight, on
To sublit dawn

The sleeping bag is warm,
he little room
Suffices for a time
For world, for home.

May too much light not fall
across the sill
Onto the rug, the wall
for this slow while

May the cool pattering souse
The unquenched trees
And these assuaging greys
Rest on my eyes.