The story of 🌍 now in 2020

The stranger wears a crown, the virus corona,

Born in a place known as Wuhan in China,
Is sneaking into pockets of the world -
Into countries big and small, far and wide, untold;

From east to west, north and south,
Spreading like rumours mouth to mouth;
Raging like the savage bush fires
Smouldering hearts and heads like pyres,

Hitting swift and silent, blow after blow,
No signs of wanting to stop or slow;
No security borders or great walls
Could ever bar it from trespassing at all;

Invisible, microscopic and unknown,
Yet so powerful in destruction grown;
Confused and lost are we amidst the wrath,
We, the so-called masters of the earth;

As uncertainty looms in the air
Fear builds like a smoggy atmosphere
Encumbering the world’s mighty powers -
Economic, technological and military powers.

The sick are in pain, suffering, and dying,
The caring health workers relentlessly trying;
A fortunate few fighting back and recovering
While many more falling prey to Covid-19.

Epidemiologists and virologists working twenty-four seven
Racing against time to find a working drug plain,
Yet answers none, only questions and whines,
High hopes but no vaccines or medicines;

Multitudes dreading the novel virus or the news,
Some oblivious and careless, others cautious and anxious;
Some like wingless ants in mayhem run
Not knowing where and whom to turn;

Shaken to the core of our very souls
We remember our saviour Gods and Angels;
The impartial coronal virus dares to rule
Over royals, leaders, commoners or fools,

Presidents, prime ministers or ministers,
None - neither elders nor youngsters,
Rich or poor, high or low, it doesn’t care -
Even scientists, doctors and nurses it won’t spare.

Some say it’s a just retribution -
God’s way of punishing the humans
For the brutal sins committed against nature,
Against Mother Earth and her other creatures.

Some say it’s the karmic ripening
Of our evil deeds or wrong doings,
For excessive exploitation, harming and killing others
To serve our endless greed and selfish desires.

Some say the pathogen has come to teach us a lesson,
That we ‘re wrong about our thoughtless actions,
That we ‘re not the masters of the earth,
That we must follow the universal law of creation.

Some say this pandemic will come to pass
Like the ones in the forgotten past,
It ‘ll and it must, but before its cessation,
It ‘ll ‘ve done its task of showing our rightful position.

In this war, we ‘ll ‘ve lost and we ‘ll ‘ve won
But not without sacrifices of our own -
Some of us will be gone or badly worn
But stand up and rise again we must, and be reborn.

The victory shall come but not by forward advancing
Rather by backward retreating and quiet home coming,
And staying within ones own family circle,
Think, simple hygiene will surely bring a miracle.

Thus, shall the Mother Earth rejuvenate,
The natural order restore to its ideal state,
The vital energy of existence balance
And the universal power harmonise.

Until then, let’s be united in unanimous prayer
As one humanity, strive to find an effectual cure;
Bid the virus disappear and the sick recover,
And may we all be healed, protected, and blessed thereafter.

So be it.
@KarmaDgyeltsheN