Conquering COVID-19 fears
I turn on my laptop, publish and flourish I seeI turn off my laptop, publish or perish, I am freeKPIs increased, COVID-19...
A Psalm Of Life
TELL me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they...
Goodbye, grand old bard
Gone,A 'Strong Breed'Serenaded through the sombre pathin 'Night Rain'By 'Song of the Goat'In lyrics dotted by rain dropsFalling like dropping mangoesOn our...
COVID-19 blues; working hard from home
Schools closed, children homerunning, screaming, crying loud.Not them, I meant me.The store shelves are bare.Has bath tissue turned to gold?That would be...
The Soul Selects Her Social Distance
The pandemic has prompted meTo consider how Emily Dickinso pnMight feel about social distancingThe soul selects her own societyThen shuts the doorShe...
The faceless tormentor
AT FIRST, it was a story to some peopleThen it became reality to all people,One by one, bit by bit, people to...
The Silence
I am the sound of children crying.I am what makes you trembleAnd shiver in your bed late at nightI am the blackness...
Good or bad
Our notion of what is good or badIs sometimes flawedI think all of us have memoriesOf apparently bad events,About which we were...
Singing this since yesterday
THE learning curve has been very steepFilled with feelings running deepAh, I have made a giant leapDoing things I could never upkeep
The world replies pandemic
FIRST VERSE
Hello world!
I am Corona.
Did I just lock you down...
My Reality
How quickly life changesFrom a normal routineWhere waking up in the morningAnd having a productive dayIs guaranteed
The time...
The tent
OUTSIDE, the freezing desert night.
This other night inside grows warm, kindling.
Let the landscape be...
The Walls
Looking around I see these walls,These dull brown walls,These four sharp walls,These lonely but united walls.
So constricting yet...
Global pandemic, faceless tormentor
AT FIRST, it was a story to some peopleThen it became reality to all people,One by one, bit by bit, people to...
Full Circle
SCHOOLS closed, children home
running, screaming, crying loud.
Not them, I meant me.
Friendship: Just Like A Palm Tree
From the crusts of lonely loamsIt gently roots inner and outerAnd softly pullulates harder and tallerTo register its purpose to mankind.
Warning at a time like this
WASH your hands! Don't go out!
If you must, then mask it!
Lest you end up
Yes, there is fear
“Yes there is fear.
Yes there is isolation.
Yes there is panic buying.
Judge from wuhan
In a prison without sentenceWho created this judge from Wuhan?When is your stay expiring?So you could go back to the lab.
Scourge of twenty-twenty
Hours rolled into days, and days into weeks,leaving our fates in the bleak.For like an army, it invades all countries,threatening the existence...