Corona Diary
Nobody knows
Who will make a life
And who will decease.
Nobody knows
How many would survive
And how many would perish.
All those natural
And artificial intelligence
Have failed to envisage
The imminent.
Neither the Swiss bank deposits
Nor the wealth in temples’ trusts
Neither the food stocks in those granaries
Nor the places of worship of any religion
Nor even, the auras of the spiritual leaders
Have saved the starved and worried population.
All the loud proclamations of representatives
And those media briefings
The drawing-room discussions
And the sensibility of a small section
Have not brought about
Considerable positive transformations.
The pain and suffering of the poor
And the hunger-related deaths
Of those migrant workers
Will not forgive the holy nation.
As the virus has attacked
All the vital organs
Of the world system
Isn’t it time to reflect upon
The fault lines in the mad rush
For global domination
At the cost of the lives of millions
And through the endless exploitation
Of the ecosystem?
It’s said that
Death brings people closer.
In this case, it’s not so.
Though Corona asks for
Physical distancing
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We have replaced it with
Social distancing.
And thanks to social distancing
There’s still this narrative
“So what? Some people
will obviously go.”
It is to be remembered
A time will come
When, even ‘we’
Would become ‘Some’.
And then, some others
Would sing the same song
“So what? Some people
Will obviously go.”
Neither money nor power
Nor influence can win
The coronavirus war
And all those past solutions
To past problems seem useless
As novel coronavirus
Calls for novel resolutions.
It’s time to understand
No God, no ideology and no system
On its own
Is enough
To save humans
From natural calamities
Unless they all come together
With sustainable alternatives.
Let’s evolve
In our hearts and minds
And let’s not allow
This wisdom to go in vain
Before the catastrophe happens.
In an interdependent world
Since we all are connected
We all must equally care
To fight the despair.
No one knows exactly
What tomorrow brings
One can only hope and wish
For a better world
Of universal responsibility.
