Dear Corona, I must say

You are killing me with boredom.

What is the point of being alive

When people cannot go or come?

 

What a jailer you might have made,

Had you been a fellow;

You have no muscle and yet you turn

The so muscled world yellow.

 

In setting us so apart

You have proved the point

That life is not property

But a commingling sentiment.

 

Having brought the lesson home,

Do take the kindly hint,

Be on your way and let us reap

The lesson we have learnt.

 

How I die for a vigorous chat

With ten or twelve chums.

I promise we will keep you in mind,

As we do alarming drums.


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Badri Raina is a well-known commentator on politics, culture and society. His columns on the Znet have a global following. Raina taught English literature at the University of Delhi for over four decades and is the author of the much acclaimed Dickens and the Dialectic of Growth. He has several collections of poems and translations. His writings have appeared in nearly all major English dailies and journals in India.

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