The Year Of Sound And Fury Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

The year 2020's ready to leave,
Need there's to feel bereaved, nor grieve;

The year of meagre earnings,
That came with many yearnings;

The year that taught us New Normal,
We hardly when knew the Old Normal;

That put us on to 'road not taken'
Ere, and left most of us nigh shaken;

The year of 'more sound and fury,
Signifying nothing' hoary;

The year we'd bread, jobs, nor yet action,
But ample sarkari distraction;

And yes, if we felt loss of voice,
We had a loud TV-turned noise-

Noise that told us: global greatness
Has been true 'Atma-nirbhar-ness;

That, dissent is sedition, hate-
New terrorist against the state;

If 'last year's words be last year' language,
Let next year be the voice of a new page.

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Tongue-in-cheek /26/12/2020