I can’t listen to music

I can’t listen to music

I can’t just listen to music

It is like a set of commands to move 

I have to flow with it, I have to groove

If I don’t move physically, my phantom limbs will

And my brain will get on its toes; it knows the drill

All set on a stage of its own giving a performance

It needs no invite nor any approving audience

I am on happy-go-lucky flashback train

And I can’t seem to pull the chain

As if it is compulsory!

It is all involuntary!

And that is the problem … 

When my classmates used music to concentrate

I put fingers in my ears or scurried out like a spate

When the whole world was using music to meditate

I could hardly use it to strengthen my spiritual state

How do I stay relaxed and focus on my breathing? 

When the neurons inside my brain are doing swing

But I am not complaining …

For it stirs me, sways me, takes me away from me

Into a wonderful space where my soul is set free

If this is not meditation, then what else could it be?

Inside the mind of a corona patient

Dabur Kadha or Himalaya Septillin?

Home isolation or Hospitalization? 

Homeopathic or Home remedy?

Asymptomatic or Symptomatic?

Coronil kit or Ayush package?

Azithromycin or Amoxicillin?

Runny nose or Itchy throat?

Tonsillitis or Pharyngitis?

Allopathic or Ayurvedic?

Back pain or Body pain? 

Ginger or Black pepper?

Hand wash or Sanitizer?

Zincovit or Becosule Z?

Blank or Mood swings?

Antigen or Antibodies?

Salt gargle or Steam?

Proteins or Vitamins?

Antacid or Probiotic?

14 days or 17 days?

Turmeric or Honey?

Vitamin B12 or D3?

Bitter or No taste?

Fever or feverish?

Eggs or Paneer?

MPV or MCV?

Soup or Tea?

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I have googled enough to deserve a degree

I have seen enough to advise others for free

I have experienced enough to watch out for the signs

I have understood enough to act before it crosses lines

Sitting in isolation, counting minutes, hours, and days

Trying to rack my brains on how did I miss on the nays

 

20 seconds hand wash, 6 feet apart, mask on my face

But within minutes of testing positive, I fell from grace 

‘Oh! I can get it too’, in my mind, that was the last thing  

It seemed so simple that it just complicated everything

And that’s how symptoms are taken for common cold,

or a casual fever or diarrhea or headache, truth be told

Oddly, tests are taboo, for fear of facing what will ensue

When actually, it is just attesting what you always knew

There are so many out there, unknowingly with the virus

And many who thought ‘Oh! why go through all the fuss!’

Can’t tell when the virus gets the better of our immunity
So, it is upon us to test at the first hint of vulnerability!