1. The Cautious Me
2. The Skeptic Me
3. The Optimistic Me

Tomorrow,
When all of this is over
Maybe we do not
Fall into oblivion
As if
Nothing happened
Nothing mattered
Nothing came
nothing conquered
There was nothing
What got us thinking
Nothing that got us
Locked inside for quite sometime
And left us sinking!

Tomorrow,
When all of this is gone by
Maybe we do not
Get back to our usual “usual”
What brought us here
At the very first.
Lest we forget what
The nature showed
In those 21 days
The mountain peaks
Clear skies and safer air
Streams and rivers, oh so clear!
Maybe we do not forget that 
Humans caged and animals roamed freely

Tomorrow,
When this becomes a thing of past
A tell-a-tale, of our bravery
Of staying at homes 
And saving the mankind
Maybe we do not ignore
Hints left by the nature
To live in harmony.
Tomorrow, while we rejoice
Maybe we do not laugh it out
What happened to all of us
In a meme or a jest
Just because we survived
Because we all lived it through!

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It has been Day 8 of the lockdown and as I walked outside my house to arrange for drinking water and buy some other essentials, I saw the nature taking over all what mankind has built and constructed. Dust formed a silken shiny sheet over the expensive cars, leaves and those cherry blossoms adorn the roads as if claiming their right. Across the news and media, we could see animals being spotted. From the red turtles retreating to Odisha beaches for laying eggs, dolphins being spotted in Arabian Sea near Mumbai, stags and deers being spotted on the roads – I could see a clear sign of the Universe to hint the humans that it will not take much for the nature to claim what belongs to it. May be it (the pandemic due to the virus and consequential clampdown of many man-made activities) is time for the reality-check!

And while all of this happened around, I wondered and came up with this piece called The Cautious Me! It is the first in the 3 part series – all of which in order are:

1. The Cautious Me
2. The Skeptic Me
3. The Optimistic Me

Here it goes:

Just because
the earth didn’t shiver
nor did the oceans
took you in their garb
the mountains didn’t quiver
and you didn’t flow in the mud tar!

doesn’t mean – that nothing happened
we just witnessed,
what could be a world apocalypse
but stopping at being a pandemic! (hopefully so)

Oblivion is not something we can choose
Consciousness might be the mantra for tomorrow
Stirring up the conscience for it approves
Of what we do not and what we do!

It doesn’t stop here
It was just a teaser of
what we are stepping into
and where we are headed to!

for the times we sail through
for the times that are yet to arrive
for the choices we have to make
for us and our generations to survive!
The Cautious Me!
The Cautious Me!

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