This poem, by Dr Amrinder, looks at Coronavirus from a counterpoint, recounting how Nature has healed itself. An exclusive for Different Truths.

I love you Coronavirus
But mind you, from afar.
Like a celestial traffic policeman
You stop scooter, truck and car

You’ve purified the air we breathe
And found an instant solution
For all the fumes that we spread,
By factory and vehicular transmission.

Our rivers will flow clean again,
Blue skies with emerge from dirty greys
Families that, work and worry separated
Will rejoin, with happy in-house stays.

The sound children playing
The ringing of their laughter
The song of birds, of wind in leaves
Flourish, in the midst of disaster.

We now realise the importance of
All thing we took for granted.
Food and water, love and leisure
Were all that, we ever really wanted.

For long we took from Mother Earth
With an insatiable, voracious greed
You taught us to conserve resources
And take only what we really need.

For long have humans ruled and
Misused the air, the seas and land
Now, animals reclaim what was theirs
Dear Corona, with your helping hand.

It is said God will reincarnate one day
To set the wrongs of this world all right
I think He has come as Corona to clear the
Earth of human debris, avarice and might.

I love your Coronavirus despite
The horror, dread and scare.
For, the drastic measures you enforce
I know, are chiefly for our welfare.

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