A LOOK AT LIFE-96

 A LOOK AT LIFE-96

BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY

  WAITING FOR A BETTER TOMORROW 

You are the soldier 

You are the general 

The battle is yours 

So also victory and defeat

Means and end

The end is to come out of 

The unacceptable present 

With the coronavirus searching for 

Human flesh In  streets and lanes 

The end is a better tomorrow 

When the fear of coronavirus will be no more 

The means is to stay home

Reduce your needs to the minimum 

Live with whatever available 

And never cry for more

Forget not

Our system has limits

If we stretch it beyond 

It will collapse 

When the system will collapse 

We will be nowhere 

It is our sacred duty to see that

Our system does not come under stress 

Let us be with our system

Whatever may be the situation 

Listen to its voice 

For the sake of ourselves, our state, 

Country and humanity 

We have to stay inside

When survival is at stake

Nothing, absolutely nothing matters 

You are to remain alive and let others 

If you love yourself, love your family

Your father, mother and grandfather

And the world around

Never go outside, be with your loved ones

Let the coronavirus

Starve In our lonely streets

Struggle  for its survival in deserted  lanes

And die without getting human cells to prey

We can live with 

A minimum of food and other amenities

But we will not allow coronavirus to feed on us 

We can not meekly surrender 

To a virus

We are made for bigger things 

With the victory and defeat 

In our hands

Let us stay inside and patiently wait

For that glorious tomorrow

When we will come out from our quarantine

And self-imposed exile 

An exile from all that mattered till now

To bask under the golden sun

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty©