India and Corona

 

India and Corona

January 2020

You were some news here and there

We read and spoke about you

We knew you were a virus

 

February 2020

You were spreading like a wildfire

We saw and heard people dying

We were confident you were too far away from us

 

March 2020

We knew you entered our land

We were confident to bury you under the sand

We locked our cities and clapped our hands

 

April 2020

 We were confident our summer will slap you

 Hence, we decided to torch you

 We saw Italy dying, US suffering, but still we lived with pride because we do not shake our hands

 

May 2020

We witnessed cases, we started seeing deaths on TVs

We decided to continue our lock-down, but never stopped working from home

Our hospitals were getting filled, but the roads were becoming empty

 

June 2020

We witnessed deaths in our neighborhood

We were waiting for eclipse to kill you

Our cases started rising and we were moving up the ranking list

 

July 2020

Salary cuts and job losses was the discussion

Worries and fear was in the top of the mind, when we heard our neighbor is no more

What next was the question in our minds

  

August 2020

Slowly lock-down was lifted

Our spirits did rise

we started feeling better than before

 

September 2020

We opened the bars but ended the moratorium

Before we said cheers

There was more cases-not the corona beer cases, it was corona cases

 

October 2020

We had festivals to celebrate

but empty purses too

however, waiting for the sunshine in the rainy season too

 

November 2020

Cinema screens were open.

But people were busy in new web series

You become a part of us

 

December 2020

When UK Saw the second strain, we touched the 1 crore line

We bid farewell to 2020, but still you are living  here and there

The news of vaccine came like a sunshine

 

Hope 2021 should be fine and you do resign 

M.L. Narendra Kumar