A remote lab hacked human systems and set in motion
A morbid microbe beyond human comprehension
That struck like lightning and spelt damnation
Of the only abode that shelters God’s creations
Known as corona it came to wreak death and desolation,
Fearing the earth they treaded, people went into isolation
Codes of conduct enacted but gave no consolation
The world went into a tail spin by the commotion
Its order in chaos, causing consternation
As systems disrupted and economy dipped to depression
But as we know necessity is the mother of invention
Not for long lasted the state of stupefaction
Humanity recovered choosing alternative solutions
From the digital world that came as a redemption
For mankind to reinstate, be it bank transaction
Or zooming conferences or teachers imparting education
Hopes soared as governments commenced vaccination
All the while corona crept in its path of evolution
Working out variants across world’s nations
With an unfathomable option of permutations
Of its biological composition that are known as mutations
More virulent, vicious causing death and destruction
Yet vital statistics balanced the species’ population
The world still went on with constraints and restriction…
In a remote lab sat the lone man watching his consoles
Blinking lights like the starlit sky fully in control
Humanoids, super computers, on the whole
A digital world sans human presence but for the sole
Operations officer, mighty pleased to be the whole sole
In-charge of a workstation that held the remote control
Of the physical world half paralysed by the death toll
Counts of the virus of the day, while he was on patrol
Safe and away from infection, thought he when he took a stroll
Little he knew what awaited him daily in his casserole
The raw meat in his favourite sandwich carried the mole
Covid positive, a heart- rending sneeze released aerosols
That carried the millionth variant towards a new goal
When it entered the aquiline nose of the nearest humanoid
He muttered to himself, “Don’t be paranoid”
As he sanitized himself, thinking aloud, "it’s just a celluloid”
But yet far away from truth, being illiterate on android
The latest and closest to the biological analogue devoid
Of human limitations, inside which as though sucked by the void
The virus sailed past an unknown realm smooth as the spheroid
Of infinite gyrations, while in its mutations as though struck by an asteroid
At some precise moment its world stood still
And the deadly virus turned digital!
Potent with power to kill not just all that is mortal
But also destroy anything that has a touch of the electrical
Corrupt all the digital conquests of mankind that were vital
To stay afloat when corona’s hold on humanity was total
The humanoid released myriads of the mutant to rattle
The struggling world in its recovery from its battle
Against the deadly viruses that escaped their natal
Homes in China, and spread its tentacles for a brutal
Attack on humanity that would prove fatal
To systems sustaining the world order and all that underlie
The extensive globalization in its modus operandi
That freedom of automation it entails whereby
He who wields the hand is well nigh
Invisible, for a point source can amplify
And a single touch of button can multiply
All were lost when the digital virus hit the bull’s eye,
The world wide web, the intricate wi-fi
When planes with people aboard rose to fly
And spiraled in free-fall before reaching the sky
When the bank transactions turned awry
There was none to demand and none to supply
When missiles flew amuck to kill and terrify
People ran helter-skelter, the air filled with their bleating cry
That soared and swelled and slowly faded only to die
The monster virus left the world high and dry
A day after the devil’s devastating death orgy
The sun crept up in the east to a silence eerie
Revealing as it rode the arching sky details gruesome, gory
Only to set, leaving the blinking stars to carry
The burden of staring at a bottomless black, scary
Even so far, as their nocturnal companion chose to flee
Safe and secure in its fortnightly plea
Of a new moon, blessed by nature and free
To postpone witnessing the tragedy
Of its nearest mentor losing its glory
There indeed had been many a story
Of the end of the world but hardly anybody
Could have fathomed such a catastrophe
Inflicted on humanity by an invisible enemy
Ferocious and ruthless and intense in fury
The living planet wept helplessly seeking some remedy
Then something touched it with a gentle hand
Wet and soft from the heaven drenching the sand
As though caressing and cajoling yet seemed to reprimand
That it was time not to weep but rise and stand
Up against the atrocities hitherto endured on its land
Those who dug deep into it dared also to expand
Into the pure space and invade with many a brand
For each good there were a thousand
Evils that led to crimes hard to understand
The rain poured louder and let the engulfing silence recede
All is not lost it seemed to say to the mother who bore the divine seed
Of all creations that nature was with her to intercede
With the selfless autotrophs who would help to feed
The few survivors, as amidst the holocaust did survive a breed
Though stunned by a momentary stupor yet untouched by greed
Whose karma had been pure in thought and deed
That may revive the lost splendour and even supersede
In infinite time but till then humanity has to concede
That the electronic marvels are but legends to read
Or narrate as grandma’s tales as would be decreed
By general consensus of a rationalist cross-breed
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