These are times
When things are unjust
These are times
When speaking up is a must
These are times when
You have to seek people who are just
These are times when
Parents have to
Hold on tight to their kids
Lest they lose them
Times when the health of the country is not robust
Remember that you have to protest
Remember that fairness must come first...

Flowers are blooming again
But the planet is ill...
People are dying in huge numbers
Infected by some viruses
Which were carried by animals...

Humans exploited the planet:
The earth,the water,the creatures!
The results are showing,
One by one...

Can't we minimize
The processes of ruin
And embrace
The blooming flowers
And read God's message?

Sorrow insurmountable
Taking me close to a coma
Still trying to keep myself happy
For otherwise, we would have
Lost the battle
“Emerge victorious”
Was what they told me
And victorious, I did emerge
Now, on the way to
Regaining my
Wholesome self
And showing the finger
To villains…

While having an avocado
For b’fast
I remembered that many
Loved ones who might have
Loved avocados are missing
From several dinner tables now…
Those who might have loved
Getting up early and exercising.
Like I do.
Those who might have
Wondered at a bough full of
Flowers they saw while out
On their walks.
Who might have felt
Awake on smelling their coffee…

Today we bought tulips
And the desks have turned beautiful
We celebrated birthdays
A month back
And I remember the vegan cheesecake for Abby
Hubby said in his card
“I don’t know how I got so lucky…”
And I, on this Tuesday
Think likewise
Alexa plays the oldies
While we drink French wine
With steaming hot
Fusion dinner…
Life is full!

Christmas is close by
We are going to celebrate in India
Without the snow
Happy and sad
Missing friends
Reunite with family
US is now home
Where I have stayed
For thirty years
And my home in India
Had my company for twenty six
O Lord
May both my homes
Prosper!

It is snowing today
Everything is white, pristine...
God is making it beautiful
In these stressful times.

Man is making things ugly
And God, making them heartwarming, nice...

He is making us believe
That the good and the beautiful prevails.
Ugliness gets defeated.

Believe, go on believing
That "this too shall pass."

Today is a different creative day
The tv is on, hubby is teaching downstairs
The day has already rolled into night
And I am in between reading a novel
And a book on art
The times are becoming full of hope again
Goodness won the elections
There are chances of a vaccine
For the pandemic getting distributed soon
But evil is taking its time to exit
And is opposing God
Winter is approaching
Festivities are on the close horizon
Let us pray
For the floods and the fires to succumb to Hope!

God creates
Oftentimes we forget
We grow from a toddler
To an adult
And accumulate adulation
At such a stage
Should we bow our heads
And realize
Our maker as the fountainhead…

Laugh, for you know not
When tears will fall
Laugh, for after summer
You’ll fall.

You who are out there working
On frontlines, grasp life fully well
Grappling with death all the time
Teach us how to value it…