WE CAN’T BE COMPLACENT WITH CODVID-19
We are fighting an unseen enemy
It is real not rare- this coronavirus
At this time of COVID-19 pandemic being our enemy
Don’t be complacent Mr. Clean
You may have lived all your life being clean
Be you a laborer, officer, medical practitioner or an academician
Coronavirus is no respecter of personality, celebrity or position
Have you taken notice of this?
Bath twice or thrice with ten tablets of soap and So Clean
Put on your underwear, boxer and dress up from head to toe
Mingle, commute and socialize all day
Then check your scrotum you’ll find a dusty mud-like dirt.
Have you bothered to ask yourself where it came from?
We’re all at risk
So keep observing the protocol for the stoppage of the spread
No matter who told you as long as they are endorsed by WHO.
Do them and be safe and save others
Stay safe, don’t be complacent
If you think you’re smart the virus you see not is more smatter
Stay safe, we can overcome only if you and I care
We sat together in the campus hole in the wall pub
You - the greatest academician of all time
Me – shy and silent with a thousand questions for you trapped in my brain
Now, older and with my conversational skills more honed
I would ask you:
How was your day?
How is your drink?
How is that new car working out for you?
Then, I would move on to my Vanity Fair interview:
Who is your favorite hero?
What word do you overuse?
What is your most treasured possession?
I would also throw in some questions of utmost importance:
Hey, what do you think of this crazy world we live in?
What do you think of Vonnegut’s theory of why we are even on this planet?
And finally, I would ask you:
If our friendship were ever to end one day suddenly, would there be at least one chance for redemption?
Twenty years in the past we looked
Twenty years in the past is today
Creaking and cracking unending for all
Masochist Regimes competing
He reigned with dark goggles twenty years past
The masses blocked off from the rays of governance
Through macabre masses reeled in military style
In penury all dwelled
In beards he stepped out to mock the saints
The people still floating and lost in their hope
Premeditated masochist’s democratic plan unleashed
In limbo all lay
We saw our very own Mandela
Escape from militarization wrongly imagined
Tyrannical imposition of corruption beheld
In shock, appreciation came
The academician turned politician should save
Conflicting confusing actions in relative short time
Corruption runs free wheel, while the master is away
In hopelessness all surrender
Good luck met overwhelming goodwill
A joke willed by the people to truly lead
The goggles have become transparent twenty years after
In idiocy all get joggled