How Life Changed Suddenly

It was a usual day and everyone was immersed working and busy being visionary

Suddenly there comes a pop up in our mobile about a deadly virus outbreak in some far-off country

Everyone in the world grieves and prays for the infected patient's speedy recovery

Not knowing the power of our new invisible enemy we continue going on with our daily activity

Slowly the virus starts spreading exponentially and creates a situation of panicky

Quite an out of syllabus virus, so doctors' name it COVID-19 because of its novelty

How does a novel virus gets evolved anyway, ever thought on it deeply?

News, mobile texts, WhatsApp forwards are all filled up with one common topic every day 

Reading and re-reading the spikes of the affected cases became everyone's priority.

More than 18000 precious lives were lost in the last pandemic, i.e 2009 H1N1 swine flu sadly,

Maybe that was a wake-up call from the universe but why did we not get the signals rightly

Though more than 170 countries are battling a common enemy, our enemy is powerful because of its invisibility

I am certain that the day isn't far when there will be a vaccination ready

Just pray to the lord that it doesn't cost many lives to get everything handy.  

It's so insane how a microorganism can halt everyone's fast-moving life so suddenly

Amidst all the hustle-and-bustle we tend to take our mother Earth for granted constantly

Had we been too self-obsessed/self-contained that we chose to defy something so brutal smartly 

We all fear death as virus attacks you indiscriminately 

Still, some people think they have enough immunity to conquer it and thus roam outside with full energy 

Although we all are carrying the sinful burden of some other country's casualty

But in the meantime lets just be strong and believe that mankind will survive soon and this too shall pass swiftly