Claiming it back?

After many years, I breathed free

I’d forgotten what it was to be me

As they moved back from the fore

I felt lighter and livelier in my core

My skin too, shined under the sun

More of my friends joined the fun

Birds, fishes, and animals returned

to claim the spaces, long yearned

The sky stole a glance in my face

‘This is my blue without the haze’

The earth slept quietly, unstirred

I can’t believe what has occurred

Where have they gone? I wonder

Will they come back??? I shudder


I = river during a lock down

How long? How far?

Cooped in my home for fifteen days now I listen to the birds outside

But this pleasant pandemonium is subdued by the commotion inside

Slowly crept into my dreams, telling me stories, I don’t want to hear

How far could I be from becoming one of those numbers? I now fear

New recipes, new exercises, new books and a ‘new’ more to explore

The social pressure to do something new is plaguing me to my core

Fighting an enemy, we can’t see, can’t believe it’s happening for real

All hopes are on medics risking their lives despite the lack of material

I don’t mind staying at home at all, I have enough to keep me going

But how will those on the roads survive with empty bellies growling?

Exponential to logarithmic, steep to flat, graphs and projections galore

How far is the cure? How long will this go? Nobody can tell for sure