Lockdown

Lockdown, lockdown, God knows, When will it open? It's lockdown, But there was a rime When we used to hear Of the hartal, chakka jaam, Towns and cities forcibly shut, A call given for shutdown, closure. Bharat bandh, Chakka jaam, Aaj hartal hai, But today we under Janata Curfew. We under restricted movement, Under self quarantine, Refusing to mix publicly As for the pandemic. Maintaining social distancing, Physical distancing To avert and avoid The infliction So that it may affect us, Infect us with the deadly virus And its symptoms As the times had been Of plague, plague, Typhoid, tuberculosis, Cholera, malaria, Polio, small pox And what to say it more, Many girl wives to die During child delivery As the Cesarean option had not been.