The same old frightening way, “From midnight onwards…”
No, not demonetisation, the PM announced Lockdown.
Offices and services, malls and halls, come to a sudden halt
Enjoy being bogged down, no more option, why do frown?

While office is closed with a big burly lock on guard,
Laptop is there at disposal and internet to connect,
Why to put on blue-collared shirt? Work from home,
Because works in leisure do tend to be more correct.
Why not try a new hobby that haunted him always?
Why not find out how much fire’s really there within?
In fact, was it a wild wilder dream to be an artist?
Or that fire was there but a muse was direly missing?

Why not swap? No, not wives, or gals, as in movies
But works, yeah with her, why not give it a real try?
Let her hang on to the cell-phone in Ts and shorts
With legs flung upwards on the sofa, the lazy way!
While cooking in newer styles - fusioning recipes
Surprising dishes with more surprising tastes!
While dancing in the kitchen - from tap to oven
Cooking, washing utensils and throwing wastes.

Why not spy on the idiot box that always bawled
Ugly regressive news – **** and riot and oblivion?
Sail through the channels with the raft – the remote!
Peep into those secret rooms she entered alone.
Why not move away from news and discovery
And unearth what’s in there in the daily soaps?
Trespassing into her unknown unseen terrains
Keeping her engrossed indoors while he slogs!

Lit up the fireplace or boost the air-conditioner,
Write a poem in her praise and recite knelt down,
Dance as the bird of paradise prepensely dances,
That you haven’t done in recent past, why frown? (2020)

Corona might be bio-weapon
Or some contagious oblivion;
Either man made it to avenge
Or it's nature's poetic revenge.

The worst of all the mammals
Rather the worst among animals,
Who have been encaging others
Are themselves all in fetters.

They, the strongest on this earth
Were too weak on their birth,
Slowly they climbed up the ladder;
The weakest of all became stronger.

They twisted the encircling nature
And utterly distorted their mother.
For needs of own, selfish they are,
Manipulated their mother nature.

These animals never ever danced
And mated with chicks tranced.
They ***** instead, in gangs
And killed, mutilating intestines.

Addicted to power they constantly ****,
Killing own people has turned a thrill.
Designed ethics and isms to put to order
But to convert they went on to plunder.

They wage wars to slaughter their kin
Who perish pierced by iron and tin.
They drop bombs to mangle civilizations
Accelerating the doom by slain actions.

Atom bombs are almost being hurled
Mankind have spoilt the ****** world.
But nature has now, at last, retaliated
After being constantly so mutilated.

Encaging the uncaged she is relieved
Though the mother within is bereaved.
They literally questioned her entity,
Her offsprings breached her sanctity.

Sea-water level is no more surging
As icebergs have now stopped melting.
Swans are back to the forbidden tanks,
Dolfins swirl again near to the banks.

Air is purer as it was during the birth
When mankind trespassed on this earth,
Pollution receding in cities constantly
Nature getting better spontaneously. (2020)