Engulfment
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The evening sun bade goodbye
And left the adrenaline in the sky,
And before the blue be smudged
With soot, the twilight hovered
Upon the town; specks of red
Being afraid of impending doom
Surrenderd herself to the gloom
While the reds smudged by black
Dumped in crony capitalist's sac.
Men in masks and gloves hurried
Home, driven by phobia of Covid
In the pervading alarm of pandemic
Their fragile defense,
alas! is theoretic.
But little they truly can to avoid
The onslaught of tragedy, forced
Upon man by men with motives
That are foggy, but all it gives
Is to serve the platter of wealth
To a few crooks in wily stealth.
The despotic darkness wiped off
Man's freedom and its joy, thereof.
© Amitava Chakrabarty
