The Elusive Upside

Once upon a past,

Told a story of-

This rampant plague that has led to the demise

Of hundreds, near and far.

Some dear, some unknown to us

But live on in someone else’s heart.

That wracking pain:

loss of one’s own

towering walls

that keep us home

Bar us; break us

The mind is a place of calamity

If you let it escape.

Swallowed into the depths of darkness,

Grief, anxiety and heartbreak.

But-

if you let your mind

Turn to the beauty that has reborn

Outside of the internet and our homes

Our foliage has regrown.

Their creeping arms

Once cut, killed whole

Reaching their way up

Into the sapphire encrusted sky.

That blue, devoid of grey

Sweet as the cotton candy

That floats, sugar white, across the sky

While the free birds take poised flight.

Animals have returned to land, water and ether

That was once their domain.

Regained are the beautiful rivers of the pink dolphin

Wallowing in the now crystalline water.

Observing nature get back to its work

Puts our minds and wild spirit to rest.

The elegance of nature

Is unparalleled, without a doubt.

Man is naïve, shallow minded being

In ignorance, he lives

Unbeknownst of true cognizance:

The profundity of nature

Looking in, we also realise

The invisible backbone of your life

Have stood at your elbow

Through doomed days of deterrent disease.

The love brought by your family

Is an ever-glowing light bulb of hope.

Someday, with persistence and optimism

We will climb back up this slippery slope!

Though this journey across hell

For us as humans has been torturous,

Can we not see that our great Mother

Is nursing her wounds in our absence?

What goes around, comes around

We pained the earth, bruised her on our own whims

She sought revenge, played the game

She kicked the ball right back at us.

So, I ask you,

Boon or bane,

Has Covid 19

Really come to slay,

Or bless life in disguise?