When every day is a Sunday where home is the whole world Then time and space remain the same
What happens? time has to be spent in some guise you binge watch you cook you Sleep you read you eat you speculate
your hobbies overdone your to-do list remains empty you get bored you get feared Suddenly time has become surplus Space has become limited
Are you free now than ever or Tied even tighter? the past looms larger the future seems bleaker there is nothing new in the news your compound is now your city walls
Seclusion and sanitisers have rightly become the order of the day gaining pounds and e-courses are quietly accepted without any say yes, social distancing keeps men away originally, mobile phones were doing that anyway
Slow days and with no change, time and space have become really one Einstein is right once again
Many businesses have become online But none seem to fall in line
The rotations have stopped the buses, the cars, the trains the machineries the schools, the offices, the factories The only thing that runs are days, But also - the TVs, the phones, the internet, and the social media is extra busy
Everywhere there’s waiting - queues for essentials students for classes travellers for destination purses for spending But nothing is happening
Cars didn’t vroomed suits weren’t worn nor shoes got dusted
Corridors are empty Roads have become bigger as the traffic got smaller Highways got to go nowhere Markets and malls are getting colder
Has The great run of Modernity halted? Is Civilisation taking a breather? has History paused?
But how long None of us know
Still our hearts say Finally, one day Things will be back to normal
But on that day would man have unlearned - his shopping his motoring his dining And all his material ostentations?
Would have this bare period taught man to live a life that’s unhurried That Thoreau & Wordsworth learnt in the woods To live a life with just the essential material goods A golden return our pristine roots
Would have man learnt to live a simple life learned through these hard days? Or would he rush to his former ways? Will the world on that day be as normal as it was or will that day bring a new normal?