Come and Go

Leaders come and go

Governments rule and misrule

Pundits caution and catalyze

But viruses attack and leave

a residue of all consuming fear,

paying no heed to borders or color,

race nor religion, language or status.

That’s its upside though,

coz no one talks of terror now

or all other inanities.

It’s way too terrifying, too overpowering,

We break apart, we break down.

Hunkering down in our own shelters

unified we ponder those on the precipice

may not make it. We are prayerful.

Since millennia the timeline

of humanity traces disruptions

again and again and again.

We survive these glitches,

resilience works and the tough endure,

History’s recorded anew for those who follow.

Awesome isn’t it,? But true!

We build again, join once more

Humanity heals and breathes again.