1)Thou, Curse of man’s crooked and cunning mind!
Thou, man’s cruel intelligence
unkind!
Thou, a tiny group of proteins
that multiplies
Thou, devourer of cells growing
in monstrous size
Thou, dreadful deathless power
not yielding to lotions
No antidote, not yielding to
magic potions
Varying thy structure in
manifold ways
Spreading throughout the world
for so many days.
2) Why hast thou turned so hard and dealt with
our fate?
Why hast thou plunged us in such
pitiable state?
Why hast thou orphaned kids and left their parents dead?
Why hast thou deprived so many
winners of bread?
Why hast thou left so many mothers
shocked with grief?
Why hast thou left mothers with
kids with no relief?
Why hast thou left so many
jobless and starve on streets?
Why hast thou let them die like
plants in desert heat?
3) And yet you made us human to help others in
need
To give whatever we have reducing our greed;
So many through health camps
give support free;
To bring some warmth and fill
their hearts with glee;
So many came to rescue to bring
comfort and peace;
So many funerals they did, the
noblest service;
So many helped in charity in
cash and kind
You, too, stop your destructive
deeds of this kind.
4) Some, like thee, turned so inhuman and
hard
Forgetting their morals, duties
they discard
Like leeches at once they suck
as best as they could
From dying patients their source
like blood
They still retain the dead till
their families fill
All bloated payments and greedy
bills;
Even funerals, charges shot up
with rocket-speed
Humanity is dead: patients
suffer for people’s greed.
5) You brought so many changes in our daily
needs
Never our bullish egos so far
made to yield
Never stayed indoors and works
we finish
Never have we tasted home-made
meals with relish
Never have we leisure at home to
spend
Never have we time to others our
ears to lend;
Never have we time good books to
read
And nourish our ideals and lessen our greed.
6) You made us see the risks of knowledge going
astray
Diseased minds with greedy
designs do play
In destructive, diabolic, harmful
ways;
Look, how for one’s error the
whole world has to pay
A heavy toll of life with
irrecoverable loss
How perverted minds transgress
Nature’s laws?
Causing so much misery to whole
world enmasse
Our hopes all lost, how can we
this disaster bypass?
7) You taught us the true value of labor hard
Though crores of people lost
their jobs, oh Lord!
Their flooding tears and sighs
beyond our bounds
Whose hearts won’t melt on
hearing their wailing sounds?
You taught us the true value of
money and goods
You taught us the true value of
family and food;
You taught us to survive with
leisurely pace
You taught us to look for alternative ways.
8) You have shattered the future dreams of
youth and thrown
Their chances of winning plum
posts in firms well-known;
You made jobless people to their
villages retire
And work in fields to forget
their stress and despair;
You made us go for new digital
ways
To buy and sell our ware with no
delays;
You made our wards to learn at
home online
Though they miss their teachers’
dealings offline.
9) Even stray dogs and beasts suffered a lot
In deserted streets due to Covid
onslaught;
None fed those poor creatures
and none did care;
As they roamed looking for
remnants everywhere;
The beggars and vagrants in a
pitiable state
Seek food shelters bemoaning
their cruel fate;
You threw our lives broken and
out of gear
Even hospitals overcrowded, no bed to spare.
10) Vaccines, the last refuge to save mankind;
You made us suffer a lot, Thou, Virus blind!
Our clumsy, lavish ways to hurt Nature kind
Taught us to blend wisdom with care in our minds;
To escape thy cruel grip and adjust
Wearing face-masks and keep distance, a must;
To lead a simple life, follow all rules and mend
Ourselves; nothing lasts long; we hope to see thy end.
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10th June, 2021 Somaseshu Gutala
so thoughtful..
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