Ramtokto pokto is burning!

I've been wondering what to post next on my blog. Days turned into weeks and weeks into months. I said to myself, time and again, "Write something; your next post has been long overdue; do justice to your blog which you so passionately nurtured to life." But yet www.sangaycthinley.blogspot.com stood as it is, like the clichéd dorje tabue ku, same number of posts with the same number of followers; no tangible change came forth. And so passed the second month after my last post! 

I do not know if words engraved on the face of my blog could speak but last night they did. I woke up when everyone was long dead – dead yet breathing in their slumber. After 90 minutes of European Championship live action which saw some top European Soccer Guns misfiring and displaying the worst performance in many years, it was almost dawn when I hit my bag. And not long after sleep shut all my senses out, albeit superficially for a passing moment, I had words from my blog talking to me! It sounded like from across valleys and ridges, yet the message was loud and clear –  they were pleading for generosity in unison. They wanted me to pen down pieces and keep the supply flowing.

So, I have chosen today, of all days, to post a poem which I have written sometime in March. I was staying in Babesa then and was witness to the wild fire which raged and razed the distant Ramtokto hillside. The heavens did not open during the fire, but wept incessantly, after the flames had been doused. 

It was a sunny warm breezy day

With my mood a high gleeful gay

The sun was high over my head

and I lay like a man dead

But now the sun's gone

Did you take it John?

I looked into the azure sky

and wished I'd rather die

The sky was but filled with smoke

Surely now, the gods will holy choke

The shining steely globe

Was marooned like a man in robe

The hill on the other side was burning

Big black smoke it was churning

The red inferno set a stag on fire

Left a crippled doe in a need so dire

Limbs raced and dashed up the hill

It was akin to a military drill

Fought they hard, the battle

Able to save, they did, a few cattle

When the sun was down and dark

And when there was but not even a lark

I thought it was all dead and doused

But in the dark were some embers aroused

So it raged and burned all night

With not a drop of rain in sight

Inestimable creatures were maimed and charred

When dawn broke, the hillside was all but scarred

High above the heavenly cloud

Few wept and many cried aloud

Grieved were they, by the scars

Just a few miles from where ply cars

Inconsolable were their pain

Would have brimmed by their tears, a drain

Disturbed and distressed, were the gods

That they finally burst open, to the earthly lords...