Aakashwondersabout

[This poem was  Judged as Third  in the Poem Competition organized on the occasion of Blood Donation Week-2020, by  BPKIHS Students Blood Donation Committee ]. Red Under The Skin What a strange time we are living in. Can you imagine a time more desperate? A time so morally barren and arid A time where indifference is the norm And humanity is the exception.                                                                                                                                Photo by  LuAnn Hunt  on  Unsplash Where inequality, injustice and discrimination Are as...

                                                            Delirium Would you like to know? What does it feel like? When you are a prisoner of your mind? And subject to its confabulated pranks To wander aimlessly in your memory land In an eternal state of existential crisis Stuck in the twilight zone Between consciousness and unconsciousness Questioning each moment Wait, is it really mine? How do I know that? What is real, what is not? Do you know what it’s like to wonder? Minute after minute, hour after hour Are the voices you hear really being spoken? And the touch you feel? Is it really there? Is the ocean just a reflection of the sky? With the endless azure blue? Are those Angels I see? With the brilliant white and the golden halo? Questions, Questions, Questions ...

                        What after the Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2). It was declared as a pandemic by WHO on 11 th March 2020 just a few months after the first case was reported on 31 st December 2019 in Wuhan city of China. Nepal went into countrywide lockdown on Chaitra 11 with only 2 cases detected. Now we are into the third month of this lockdown with over 6000 cases detected and 15 people dead with the end seemingly out of sight. So, as of now, thinking about life after pandemic seems more like a wistful foray into the imagination. But as it was once said by Albert Einstein– ‘Your imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.’ And certainly, there’s no harm in a little bit indulging and thinking about li...