The New Normal

The curtains remain closed now,

As the light which once made chalk dust float

Seeks refuge in the classroom replicas;

Only that they fit in our palms.

Coffins abounding at nature's mercy,

Education leaps with faith.

While the world stops,

Web meetings march on unaltered.

Routines stagnated with monotony,

We squint into the boards on our screens.

Unable to perceive as clearly as the old normal,

We lie oblivious of our educational fate.

"Do you understand this?"

A class lies in contrast of answers,

Yet unspoken through the muted audio.

"Please respond", the teacher pleads into the dark.

Satires and ridicules keep growing

In an environment unmanned.

Welled up eyes submerged under necessity,

The teachers continue.

"Am I audible?"

What remained inaudible were the stifled cries

Veiled by the frequent network issues

As some stood marginalized from education.

Strangled remain unheard voices,

The ones who know no satire.

Lying awake with unkempt desire,

To fit into the screens of eternity.

Voices echo in empty classrooms

But of the protests against injustice,

As the pandemic blooms into a lesson

Mankind fails to learn.

Chapters unfold subsequently

Of life as well as books,

Intertwined into the numbness of reality

We accept the theory of adaptation.

The shadows of mortality creep through cracks

Silhouetting the jaded hearts of preachers.

Recurrent shrieks of the unhindered internet

Lie awake in the perpetuity of preaching.

Of the fraction of what students acquire,

There is but the lesson of realization.

The satires turn into the devils

Inside their minds flooded with resentment.

For time is but an art,

And the artist nature,

As it paints the masterpiece of reality,

While time resides in it's moralising theme.

Lost morals gained, we carry on;

Hushed audios turned on, we learn,

For we are the rulers of our own situations

And time has done it's trick.

Embracing our new normal,

We wake up to glistening devices,

Illuminated by the reluctance to submit

To the crucification of a virus.

Awaiting with an unfaltering smile,

The teachers choke their agony 

With the will to propagate

Education in the cruelest plight.

Chapters are plenty,

Pages abound unending,

But education was sought

The moment agony turned into will.

The intricacies of human evolution

May have predicted a brief stop,

For here we lie abreast

From the paused steps of the world.

Caged in quarantine,

Masked faces battle with the viral gloom.

Trapped in lockdown,

Education awaits redemption soon.

We welcome new days

As the chalk settles on our benches.

Waiting for the current normal to cease,

We lie fixed to our screens;

Praying for the sunlight.

Praying for the sunlight.