Curfew Tolls the Day

Fear of decay looming large

Ringing the bell on every threshold

Solitary dungeons being created 

A refugee at one's own home

Where crowd was a norm

It wears a mourning cloak

Every report of casualty

Snowballing the horrors

And ask me what I am afraid of

Not the rampage wreaked

By this monstrous virus

O humans! Thou art severely infected 

With the contagion of ignorance

Is it not more lethal 

Than the one encroaching our spaces

Thy hearts bereft of compassion horrifies more

Call your reason at work

That heartless virus is not obedient to leave 

At the stroke of your hands

Jettison this quackery

Let us follow the right prescriptions

Learn, O, people! Learn to co-exist.