30th March 2020 - 6th DAY OF COMPLETE LOCK- DOWN OF INDIA

17^TH DAY OF MY SOCIAL ISOLATION

1071 POSITIVE, 29 DEAD, 100 CURED

General feeling: “The new normal that people are speaking about is now seeming like something that could really be. Still convincing myself to prepare for this. An online personality is all what we will be living with for some-time to come. Is that personality your Insta account or your Facebook profile? Who are you, digitally? But more importantly, who are you?"

Today, I am penning down a poem. I have a feeling, some of you may have gotten fatigued with the long paragraphs that I usually post. So let’s try, spinning another art form of expression.

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I am sorry, I have joked about it

I am sorry, I have demanded work from home as human rights

I am sorry I failed to see beyond the sensation

Of news updates, of geo-political bytes

As thousands in the world die a painful death,

Unable to say goodbye,

Thank your luck in every breath

You may not be the one to die

As we accept the times that are,

And move ahead of denial

It’s unforgiving to be stoic

As the world goes through this trial

The new world order, they say

Is here to come and stay,

Unsure of what we are to become

For how many wounds, we are to pay

Uncertainty is testing our hearts

As loneliness, we continue to brave

It’s asking us of strength and valor

To finally let go,

Of the “normalcy”, we crave

Normal is nothing but an art of our own,

Your normal is perhaps my unknown

And yet for once, we together moan

Of the collective havoc, that we have wreaked

On nature, on earth, our crimes have peaked

And the alarm bell, today, as it rings

Deafens us with its deadly dings

Reminding us of what we’ve become

All the greed that we have heaped

As we face into the future through our virtual screens

Together learning the social scenes

Of Insta-handles and Facebook profiles

Losing ourselves to our ‘internet memes’

Divided we stand, together we fall

Who’d have taught could be a literal call?

But here we are, facing the heat

Mindlessly fighting to evade defeat

Maybe we will, I hope we shall

Be able to break an insecure wall

Of mistrust, of greed, of mindless disposition

Of struggle for power & No.1 position

Of crony capitalism,

Of cruel communism,

And their staunch & unforgiving brutes

Of dreadful experiments

Of deafening lies

And convenient alternate truths

Let hope tell us we’ll be human

In flesh & blood, in mind & heart

With emotion and empathy

As our guiding start.