ELEGY ON CORONA!
Hail you dear deadly Corona
For, you have silently silenced everyone
Across the globe, without discrimination!
Nations after nations have tumbled into
Your lethal trap without war or treachery;
You have closed the lid and made every infected
Surrender without any escape route!
You are strong and merciless and shut
Every mouth with masks in clueless plot;
The masks have halted human actions and speech
And spelt a spell of sheer fear, dark agony and shown up
The eternal truth of biased desire for eternity
That is bound to be short-lived, despite the pride of innovations
And scientific advancements hailed as ingenuity!
You have distanced humans from humans
And taught the values of life of penance,
Discipline and inter-personal relationship!
No dictator in history had had the audacity of Corona Virus
That has mesmerized and subjugated human activity
So chronically and for periods beyond imagination or perception!
You have not spared the rich or the powerful;
You have not discriminated between the poor and the affluent;
You do not seem to differentiate the knowledgeable with illiterate.
You are indeed the final truth of life that leads everyone to the doom.
By S. DWARAKANATH
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