Gateway To A New Morrow Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

Calamities come, nudge humans to push
Away from past to forge the world anew,
A golden move they might to men adduce—
A gateway from old world to skies all blue;
If geography wills history to repeat
That Earth gets her youth lost in hundred years,
If mankind makes her mind new world to greet,
No greener fronds might flash to wipe our fears.
Hope, man chooses to walk through this gateway
Leaving skeletons of the past aside,
All prejudice, hatred, vultures' greed grey,
All dead ideas on grandeur growth beside,
If only man sticks to the old adage—
Of walking light with Spartan life's luggage!
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Historically big pandemics have happened with a span of hundred years.
Nearly hundred years prior to Corona virus world suffered Spanish flue.
Before that there was plague, and huge chunk of life was wiped out.
As a silver line, world always saw some substantive change for the better.
This calamity also can be viewed as an opportunity to change.
And change for a better tomorrow, if only….

Sonnets | 16.09.2020 |
Topic: world, life, tomorrow