Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia writes

THERE HAS TO BE A REASON

There has to be a reason why this  bug is called a crown

And it is not simply that we are in certain awe of death 

Perhaps it is designed to bring established systems down

A reason why air pathways of the lungs in fluid drown

There has to be a reason why it rides upon our breath

Perhaps it is designed to bring established systems down

Swiftly it moves across the globe through country state and town

Enveloping in its dreaded cloud every syringe and steth

There has to be a reason why this bug is called a crown

I wonder why the scholar says softly with worried frown 

This virus seems to me so like Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth

Perhaps it is designed to bring established systems down

The last thought of the lonely man in white hospital gown 

Dying in smell of spirit and fading in fumes of meth

“There has to be a reason why this  bug is called a crown

Perhaps it is designed to bring established systems down “

 

Note : ‘Corona ‘ in Greek, Latin , Spanish and Italian means ‘ Crown ‘