The Enchantment Trap
I am trying
to teach a language
Whose future
undermines our embellished past;
Where
semblance of sanity is a façade
Exposing our
attitude towards humanity…
In the
frontline of deserted streets
Lay in rows of
coffins and white spreads
Morphing into
chains of interconnectedness,
As world
blinks for relief!
Living into an
unceasing constrained mobility,
Fragmented lives
struggle in their resilience,
Scaling and
reinventing powers and forces,
As survival
strategies hang in strong winds.
Stumbling into
the narrow passage of crushing austerity,
Humanity
finds scarce land to bury the dead, whilst thousands
Mourn the
anarchy of a few – hopes dwindle.
Fragile souls
intrudes into the solitary reverie with
Crumbling images
of flowers dancing in the dusty breeze
Battling obstacles
of breathing oxygen and overflowing confusion!
Here freedom
and choice clings into a fashionable
Cohesion of
imbecilic legitimacy of materialism and greed;
Here
industries return to necessities, crying solidarity.
Here closed
landscapes and communities assemble their
Magical endurance of dodging the enchantment trap – once again.
RAJDEEP PATHAK
APRIL 2, 2020
“World beyond COVID 19”
