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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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