With the COVID pandemic having convulsed the globe this year, many like myself are still coming to terms with the new norms of life that have been imposed upon us. For an outdoorsy person such as myself, the quarantine period has taken a big toll. I still tend to take the optimistic view that we should soon conquer this debilitating virus, however more importantly the life lessons it has given us are worth pondering and introspecting.
I try to engineer
the slightest excuse
To wander outside
Exploring
well-rehearsed excuses
And errands that
I have refused to perform
In all these
years
Take grocery
shopping for example
Whenever I step
outside,
A flex board
outside
With letters
emblazoned in alarming red
Blare – “Stay
Home. Be Responsible.”
My conscionable self-retreats
home-ward
But my heart
isn’t appeased
My fidgety
fingers and shuffling feet
Need action
The house, feels
like a prison cell
The same four
walls that guarded and nurtured me for 3 decades
Arrest my
presence
I switch on the
TV in sheer boredom
There is only one
thing being talked
News channels,
sports channels, vernacular programmes,
Hackneyed soap
operas all are centered
On one grotesque
theme -
The theme of the
hour
The idiot box is
gravid
With COVID-19
Death, doom and
destruction
Foretokenings and
instructions
Are all that are
being purveyed
I switch off the
TV and head back into the bed room
Scrolling down,
the over-wrought mobile
For new sources
of divertissement
The Instagram memes
are only a temporary pain-killer
Facebook
has been employed ad-nauseum
I need one
ultimate cure, a panacea
To wash away the
ennui
Till the time we
can step our toes
Into the waters
of normalcy
Till the time we
can proclaim
The sky is ours
again
Till the time
Life becomes life
again
Till then we will
do what we can
Contribute in the
slightest possible way
To tear away the
pandemic nets
That have been
cast upon us
Corona is basking
in it’s witching hour
But this too
shall pass
We will do what
is in our power
To end this
impasse
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