Monsoon Amid Pandemic Poem by Konalli Rajeev Naik

Maiden clouds of monsoon
Are like deployed medical personnel
Clad in PPE kit to combat
Iconoclastic pandemic.

Sudden shutdown
Is a boulder fall
Witchery virus converts
Masked faces to faceless idols.

Locked in quarantine centre
And hit by the virus of hunger
The migrant workers
Are like caged birds.
Glittering lightening curves
Twinkling in their eyes
Dream of flying home
To see the kins and siblings
And their children in captivity
Drawing the diagram
Of thorn bodied corona virus.

Lightening thrashes
The searching virus eyes.
Heavy monsoon shower
Begets insolent flood
To drown the Novel Corona.

Asphalt hospital roads
Smile when the deadly wave ends
Cold clouds chant
The melodious confabulation
Of warm vaccination.