It’s a roller coaster ride,

this surviving amidst Covid-19!

The brain is jammed,

The heart is locked.

The eyes are seeing,

yet are not seeing.

The ears are hearing,

but aren’t listening.

Tears are welling up

But not flowing.

The hands and feet are moving,

But without direction.

The soul feels like a caged bird,

Wanting to break open

And fly in the open fields.

And the time seems like a linear line,

Where every heart is filled with an unknown fear,

Of a future of uncertainties

And of circumstances too trying!

 

But a VOICE within speaks softly,

and implores to let go off the fear.

These are what such times are made of, it says,

When history is created,

By strong hearts

and unflinching attitudes.

When the weakest moments

Stare in your face,

And force you to take a stand

And dare you to choose living life,

Over being the indifferent dead souls

Who float around, far and near.

Its moments like these,

Which make heroes out of

Ordinary people….

Ordinary people who understand,

that standing upright in adversity,

Is the only way out of darkness…..

Reading into the problems

And finding solutions,

Is the only way out into the Light.

It’s times like these when

Believing in yourself,

Is the only tool one has.

When reaching every heart

With the language of Love and

a tone of reassurance,

is the only way of connecting souls.

Its times like these when

The core essence of being human

Makes you rush forth to

Hold a fallen one.

When you know survival depends more,

On filling souls with Love

Than filling tummies with food.

Slowly you begin to understand that

You are caught in a moment of golden light,

that will shine on others in future.

And show them the way out,

If ever they were engulfed with

The darkness of troubled times.

Let us become strong

And march forward,

For we have to survive

To tell the stories of bravery,

Heroism, humanity,

Die hard attitude,

To the world of the future!

It’s how histories are created

And folklore born.

Let us become that speck of ink,

In the stories that will be written today,

Stories that will enrich the future generation

And make them feel proud

Of our generation.

Because they will know then

That life lived with honesty and courage

Is bound to be a shining example

To live by!

And perhaps THIS IS the kind of stuff

 which created the epics of the past..

And these heroic moments of today

are the kind of emotions of yesteryears,

that were wrapped in layers of

times and became the

tales of bravery, sacrifice, love, courage, valor,

that history is made of!

 

                                                                               ~ Shilpa M. Kamble

                                                                                  Mumbai, India