Life as we have known so far
Is about to change
For when the storm subsides
We would all be tamed

All our money and ego
Reduced to a mere bauble
For the stupid virus did not differentiate
Between the affluent and the rubble

It also did not differentiate
Between the weak and the magnate
Such an ill bred and an illiterate virus
Without any manners or etiquette

It has given us all
Serious food for thought
An urgent course correction
Lest the future comes to nought

This is the real essence
Of a once in a life time storm
For at the end of it all
Ushers in a very new morn

Subir Chakraborty
7th June 2020