Monsoon

The rain outside my window is lashing past in horizontal lines, with sporadic puffs of mist. 

Winds are banging doors and knocking articles off-balance. I can hear things crashing in other homes too.

I have never witnessed monsoon fury of this magnitude in my life.

Can this tiny, presumptuous, self-sufficient, seemingly unperturbed island really take so much rain? There are only 655 square kilometres. 


I think it too might be starting to wonder if its perfect roads and banks and offices and drainage system can really handle the wrath of this monsoon.