Home Quarantine

Home quarantine!

Everyone is

Complaining about it.

Are not women

In-home quarantine

For centuries?

Slogging in the house

Doing everyone's bidding

Bowing under the

The pressure of the title

Griha Lakshmi!

Now that everyone is

In-home quarantine,

Her troubles have

Escalated a thousand folds.

With no help from outside.

With everyone asking for

Her attention, calling her

For everything.

She runs here and there

With dishes to clean and

Clothes to wash, cooking

To be done and scores of

Other work pending.

She longs for a world

Without Covid, when things

Ran smoothly, men went to

Work and children to school.

Then she could steal a few

Moments to herself, to

Relax and recuperate.

Now she prays not

To God but to Covid.

Please go away and

Give back my life,

Else take it and let

Me be rid of this

Quarantine forever.