Hobe Na (2)

Yahiya Ibrahim

When a son refused

to do the last rites of his father

you ask me to write a dirge on Corona,

hobe na.

When both the parents turned Covid positives

and the grand parents did not allow

their two and half year grandson

to enter their house

you ask me to write a thernody on Corona,

hobe na. 

When the son and his wife turned

the old woman out

on the streets of Mumbai

you ask me to write a monody on Corona,

hobe na.

When a burial is refused

and a funeral is denied

you ask me to write an elegy on Corona,

hobe na.   

© S. M. Yahiya Ibrahim