It's an attempt to depict what has been perceived by senses around in many places including Nepal during Covid 19 pandemic and enforced lockdown.

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I peep the lane

Through window pane

Into the effect

Corona has lain

The empty streets;

Still and sleeping

As though in coma

Or may be swooning

The peddlers, the laborers

And daily wage earners

Masked faces all sanitized

Some isolated and others quarantined

Paralysed economy

Socialization tabooed

Though the Sun rises

Eclipsed all enterprises

Hungry and helpless

In the lonely corners

Grope into the dishes

The gloomy unfed masses

"How long", they ask,

"must they fight?"

The restless daylight

And breadless night

Do end the game

Of pandemic or infection

For no virus can claim

Deadlier than starvation

If yet not audible?

Just hear the tears

That tell of realism

Not a fictitious romanticism

Destitution and debt

Or penurious fate

How long such dearth

And disdainful state?

Do any virus or infection

Ever claim fatal than starvation?

By Dipesh Kumar Bhagat

From: Nepal

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