A tiny Coronavirus changed the world order, says Dr. Shikha, in this poem, exclusively for Different Truths.

As dust sits down and roads snarl bare,
Spitting fire around death rules the air.
Silence now wears a rigid frown
As brimming life comes crashing down.
Yet nature’s sunken lungs have found
New lease of life to breathe around.
No lockdown of sun-kissed rays…
Strange are the Lord’s healing ways!
The foul dying ozone to cure
An alien virus He did lure.
When all mankind together wails,
Only His supreme might prevails.
Wake up! Wake up! He will purge
The universe of this deadly scourge.

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Dr. Shikha Chatterjee

Dr. Shikha Chatterjee is Assistant Professor in English in Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, India. She is a trained vocalist in Indian classical music. Her interests include creative writing, painting, singing and travelling. She has collaborated with a renowned scholar of Hindi and Professor in the University of Naples, Italy, for a bilingual book, Bhojpuri Loriki part-2 currently available in the U.S. Library of Congress.

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