By Manahari Kshitiz
“The human world is free”
Declared the emperor declared many times—
“You are free; we are free, all free.”
Are we free?
Who can answer the unanswered?
Can you?
From distant past till this day
The human race has been rated superior in all kinds.
What a tragic fate!
It gets challenged by unseen deaths.
Oh! COVID, what game have you played?
The resonant awful death bells.
Revert the imprisoned world,
Full of miseries and plagues
A by-product of overrated experiments
The unnumbered demises,
Of episodic casualties;
Three kingdoms, Mongol conquest, colonization,
And World Wars Black Death, Spanish Flue,
COVID, and other unseen ones.
Open Pandora box is roaming outside
The human hearts are unopened for a long time
The entire civilization is terrified and suffocated,
Showing the heads
Gently pull the edge of window curtains,
Skirting of scenic wilderness.
Delightful dreams of wings flying nowhere,
Their hopes are easygoing.
Suddenly,
Scattered and splashed in the desert;
Dreams are cramped and caged.
Oh my dear, we are defeated.
[Manahari Kshitiz has an MA in English Literature from Tribhuvan University, and is now an educator. His poems have appeared in many national dailies.]