Heat Wave

Heavy, thick, humid air

Envelops you, ensnares

Beads of perspiration fall

Trapped inside a heat wall

You feel your cells shrink

All the water you drink

Does not keep pace

With the loss in this furnace

Hot, languid, listless

Squirming, turning, restless

Dehydrated brain unable to think

Heat brings you to the brink

Of complete shutdown of faculties

When would this heat wave cease?

Thunder, lightning, downpour

The air fills up with moisture more

The heat index higher soars

Storms more power outages force..

Intense heat unrelenting seems

Of cooler temperatures I dream