What is the Time?

Here are Ram Krishna’s ten short poems about the pandemic exclusively for Different Truths.

#1. Emoji
Life has sent me
An emoji
Unable to read its mood
 
#2. Fact
An invisible enemy
Makes a fact so visible
Handle your nature, and Nature
With care!
 
#3. Web
Everything virtual
And digital
Web now caught in life
Or vice versa?
 
#4. Story
Numbers, counts, rates
Can stats unmask stories?
Of fast-forwarded misery
Of torment and tragedy?
 
#5. Healing
Amid tears, cries,
And colossal wreck
Time says wryly,
You will be healed
Over time
 
#6. Horoscope
I-you, us-they, all
Sailing in the same boat
Humanity has
A common horoscope                                                          
 
#7. Play
Time forcing us
To play with
A ball with spikes
But no referee's in sight.
 
#8. Words
Amid
Bizarre
Words, all medical
Where is the lexicon
To heal
Trauma, scars?
 
#9. Name
Names are just
Cases
Did one say,
What is in a name?
 
#10. Time
Tears flow
Eyes stare into the void
We are walking into
The hands of time
Hoping for
Hand of God!

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Ram Krishna Sinha

Ram Krishna Sinha is a former General Manager at Bank of India, and lives in Mumbai. After three and half decades of distinguished career in the Bank, he is presently invested in talent mapping, management education and writing for newspapers and magazines on contemporary issues. An author of the motivational book “X-Factor @Workplace” published by Tata McGraw Hill, he is an Opinion Columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine.

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