Thursday, June 10, 2021

NOTHING LASTS LONG

 

 



                   


                     


 

                    



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


 

 

         

 

    

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                              

 

 


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