Corona

Crestfallen to reckon

When both the physician and the patient lie in one bed

And wait for death

I dash my head on the wall of time

And cry and plead-

O Time! do tell me

Where is my future

When the present is not with me

When I am scared and run for life

Where do I find a solution -

In run,

In isolation,

Or in unison?

As the day has turned insane

And moves around

Like a killer fleeing from the prison ground

I escape from my neighbour

And from my kith and kin

Who shout and scream

To live in quarantine

Though there is no terrorism,

No blast or of the nuclear scare

But for a faceless,

Invisible killer-

That emerges from everywhere

Horribly terrible,

Gruesome,

And fatal,

More fatal than the world war

She has donned her second-self

And her anger like bonfire permeates

To unleash fright and death

When her patience has run out

To elbow out my earthly position

And frown at

My immatured science

And feeble materialistic gain

By wielding her trump card-

The deadly Corona outbreak

After a tremor, a tsunami or Fani's wreck

As I grew too selfish

By pampering my childish boastings

I misread

And forgot to worship

When she was all kind

And provided me, all health to grow

Instead of fulfilling her wish

I grew to ravish-

Her beauty

Her modesty and love

Leaving on her a permanent stain

To test her calmness in shame

She is in everything

And in every being

She is the benefactor

And an annihilator, too

Can liberate

Or murder, too

Now,

I have to pick a choice

To treat her according-

To survive

Or lie lifeless in her lap

Where she once lulled me.