War and Peace

Lockdown/ shutdown

The virus is not down

Red, orange and green

Are the colour of the new division.

Containment under the red circle

The spectre does loom over.

Life far from normal

Empathy is the lost word

We forget to help other

Neighbour dies in hunger.

Worried are the warriors

Leaving the ground in fear.

Long walks of suffering

Over Roads, rails and water

One never knows

Which is deadlier

Living with fear or hunger.

The makers of lifeline

Loses life so invaluable.

Roti's red soaked in blood

Staring at the slained body

Is shame to our power and glory.

Invisible is the enemy

The battle is getting fiercely

The victims are hounded to quarantine

Hospitals are awfully falling short

The death toll is on mounting.

The challenge is insurmountable.

We may think of world war three.

The enemy is a no-state epidemic

And treaty is not possible 

To end the ever-extending lockdown.

The virus may never go

Win impossible in near future

Need is to come in term.

Time and patience are defence

War does go with Peace .