STAGNANT WATER
STAGNANT WATER ********************* Stagnant water No ripples No movement. No rustling winds No bright sunshine No feeling divine No chanting in shrines Life has become Like this only In C O V I D times. How I long to see Children going to school Or Merrily playing in park Barren roads again Fluttering with traffic Shopping complexes Busily occupied till dark Folks moving fearlessly Getting rid of home-confinement Long parted near and dear ones Meeting again, with emotions sublime I invoke Mercy of God To give us back Freedom of body and mind Let past life rewind. @RAJNI CHHABRA Poetess & Polyglot