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Writer's pictureShandar Oman

Isolation’s End Lament

Updated: May 26, 2020


Leaves dancing wind chimes

Chickens mutter morning curiosity

Clear blue skies

No monsoon return this season

Sweats abated

Dragonflies perform joint manoeuvres

Strange season this

Birds sing normal, machine turned off

suffering march on hospitals over borders

In our island prison luxury of petty concern chants its mantras

Couped humans stampede open gates

overcrowded disturbance of nature’s peace

Commerce resumes its barking at the gate

Pigeons continue life’s song

On and on and on and on

Earth breaths easier

Glimpse what we have lost

Awakening from a dream

going back to sleep

Brooding creatures of endless hunger pacing inside cells

Resenting freedoms limits plotting revenge

Lessons unlearnt

Nature must submit!

It has been decreed

But time is on her side

Heat’s tide is rising relentlessly

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