Every morning
The Sun of hope and  happiness rises
Every afternoon
The cloud of uncertainty floats away !
Every evening
The fog veiled silver globe refills zeal!
Every night
The calm  night sends dreams of  worlds seen and unseen

 

Awaiting call

From nowhere

Roaming on the terrace

I remember paths parted

friends departed

Hopes disappeared

I think of

Animals endangered

Trees uprooted

Humans perished

Values denuded

I detested

Budged promises

Fudged statistics

Fears fomented

Tears augmented!

Waves come and go

Undaunted travels

Ulysses in Pandemic  times! 

 

 

 

Fear not invisible foes

Leaving visible enemies

Hunger oppression,

Persecution pain

Are claiming our hearts and minds

Imagining our end

ignoring our  road

Immersed in doubts

Groping in despair

We cannot cherish ideals

Daring death

Caring for life

Despising disease

Smiling our way

Slaying disbelief

Enhancing reason

Take a step ahead

Like a Leopard

Like a Leopard !

 

The day evaporates

Followed by night that melts

Like hope and despair

Thoughts are limping

Action is sleeping

Inexplicable pain

irritates

Trees are stolen of fruits

Animals are stolen of life

Humans are robbed of zest

But the sun rises punctually

So is our infinite hope

Despite disease death and dearth

Let us love and pray nature

To forgive our sins.

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Fear not invisible foes

Leaving visible enemies

Hunger oppression,

Persecution pain

Are claiming our hearts and minds

Imagining our end

ignoring our  road

Immersed in doubts

Groping in despair

We cannot cherish ideals

Daring death

Caring for life

Despising disease

Smiling our way

Slaying disbelief

Enhancing reason

Take a step ahead

Like a Leopard

Like a Leopard !

 

 

Night

Pitch dark

Light

Broad day light

Hours pass like a snail

Days like earthworm

Months are moving like cockroach

Disease like history  repeats itself

Our behaviour also

Nothing changed except numbers of folks

And names of diseases

Humanity always takes a beating

In the face of fear or

Under its foot

Never seek meaning of life

As it stops giving it

When you demand it

Understand its silence

Violence and ambivalence

To live is a privilege

None wants to surrender

 

 

You don't cry hoarse

When elite grab wealth

You don't cry foul

When eye of justice is gouged

You don't find fault

When defaulters take refuge abroad

You don't point a finger

When tongue of an innocent lass is chopped off  and her life snuffed out

You don't find it amiss

When artisans and farmers starve or eat on roads

You don't lift a finger

When leaders refuse to name black money holders

You don't find any objection

When high cost robs quality of education or health

You don't criticize

When folks are killed for eating different

You never find it absurd

When a few get hundreds of crores as annual income

When millions remain jobless

When you pervert people's verdict

But when common people are given freebies even in pandemic

You say it's not economics!

 

 

When people are

Suffering crying dying

When hospitals

Mortuaries are overflowing

When leaders are

Babbling bribing seeking

When hopes are

fading withering

When power is

Greedily devouring

values

How can you weep or sleep?

Allow no fears tears years

To paralyze You!

It is time for working

Slowly surely steadily

To think hard

To act swiftly

But not

To weep or sleep!

 

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That's it

Some haves

Many have-nots

In vaccine access too

Inequity inhuman

It's big business!

 

Africa groans

Latin America moans

Asia awaits

While they

Grab lion's share

Of vaccine

All lives are precious and equal

Some have privilege

To live and let others die!

 

 

 

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The imagination of every nation is possessed

Mortality stares at every one

Our jokes are our fears disguised

Our hopes are our despair coloured

One girl demands her dead brother

Another her husband or son or mother or brother or sister

People are anguished but not angry

Since their enemy is invisible

They fight with shadows

Perfect inside  labyrinth

They have choice

between bankruptcy and self -destruction

The debates go on

The mikes are muted

Minds are convoluted

We long for light

That never comes without fight

The posterity

Is preparing for battles

While we turn mere cheerleaders!

 

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My appeal to folks

Never trust the vested interests

Who promise heaven and

deliver a veritable hell

Once in five years

They need your nod

To sit on throne

They tantalize you

With offers galore

You've to use your reason

To trounce their treason

You are real rulers

Real lions

But select those

Who trod on you

And shed tears in vain

Awaken from addiction

To archaic ideas

And helpless groans

"We ,the people of India"

Need to rejuvenate

Our love for life of liberty

And avoid death sans dignity!