FEAR OR HOPE??

Do you feel it, the sense of fear that lurks around?
It almost chokes you and engulfs you in its grip,
Like dark clouds glooming in the horizon.
The paranoia is real, and universal-
While the heart shattering images shake you to the core.
There is a grief, a sense of melancholy in the air,
And yet more than the virus it is the fear.
The uncertainty of our being and the realisation-
Of how brittle our existence is in the realm.
We claimed to be invincible and yet, 
To a microorganism, now we bow.
And then somehow you realise the boundaries that you created
Are all fragile-all faded into oblivion now.
Where are the lines of religion that you drew, 
The barricades of class & caste askew.
Death they say is the greatest leveller 
And indeed it is true.
For now the battle is not between me and you,
But between the two extremities of survival and cessation.
And the day when this ends, do not forget , that we were at stake-
Our subsistence is as frangible as it can get.
And let the beacon of hope still shine bright 
For a metamorphosis is always right
For humans to be humane
For humanity to thrive.

-Devyashree Dutta

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