Manan Das pictures a river and the wind moving across it as two partners, almost like a couple. The poem opens calmly: the river flows, and on its surface flows a "river of wind," moving with the same rhythm and with joy. The two seem to understand each other.
Then the relationship starts to shift. A gentle wind touches the river "intimately," and she shivers. When his affection grows a little stronger, she trembles. By the end, the wind has turned into a tempest and the river becomes a destroyer with monstrous waves. The gentleness is gone, and what began as play turns into violence.
The speaker mostly watches, but the poem suggests wonder and some unease at how quickly tenderness can become force. The mood moves from peaceful and playful to tense and stormy. The repeated lines about the river flowing, left unfinished at the end, leave a sense that the cycle simply goes on.