The healing hands, we thank you!

The guns couldn’t fire

The missiles couldn’t hit

The bombs couldn’t destroy

The jets sounded too feeble to rise

And turn it to rubble

Tons of metal stockpiles, ashamed

Toothless, grinned for a while

 

The brave men on the borders

Were left with no orders

High ‘Trump’ets and empty threats

Fell apart with no takers

The shaken powerhouses could

All but count numbers from their cozy indoors

 

That’s when they stepped out

Just like the avengers

One with a steth around the neck

The other with a hand that nursed

The khaki and the ringmasters

And then came the unsung daily fighters

 

Just like the superheroes

They fought the enemy

Unknown and unseen

With all that safety gears

A plastic to wrap on and

A mask to barely mask!

 

Sentiments locked down at home

The pain in the back

Kept on the back burner

They burnt the midnight oil

So we could all safely coil

There was more to fight

Virus was far better!

Ignorance, bricks and sticks

Mobs that always caused havocs

 

Fellowmen fell by the hour

A decent burial was far from real

But just like the superheroes they stood tall

And scripted tales that we shall never forget to tell

That there was a time in our lives

That when some men & women

Rose to answer that call of duty

Where sacrifices were called in plenty

Only to put humanity first

And all else to rest

 

In our hearts we shall find

A place for them all to stand

For the real life superheroes

The covid-19 fighting doctors, nurses

Policemen, civil servants

The cleaners and all the change makers

 

A big THANK YOU ALL

And keep up that fight

The world shall HEAL

And the lessons learnt shall stay for REAL

 

Without wax

Ash