The Covid-19 took the whole world by surprise. Before we knew it, the entire world went into lockdown. The regular life came to a pause. It started to show up in everybody's lives differently. When we look back at it a few years, decades and centuries from now, what will people see or talk about?
As the children in the school embarked on a newsletter project on - No Virus Can Stop Us, they asked Sreeja Ma'am to write a column about it. She chose to write a poem in her role as a mother of all children in the system and it's an exploration of the mother and child together of the situation that they suddenly find themselves in as well as a promise of hope to the ones who can't see the light.
Let's read on.
As the children in the school embarked on a newsletter project on - No Virus Can Stop Us, they asked Sreeja Ma'am to write a column about it. She chose to write a poem in her role as a mother of all children in the system and it's an exploration of the mother and child together of the situation that they suddenly find themselves in as well as a promise of hope to the ones who can't see the light.
Let's read on.
The machines came to a grinding halt
The morning rush no longer the default
People scared, holed up in no virus can stop us listening to me homes
A sight one heard of only in tomes
Did the virus win? What happened next?
Mummy, please don't stop just yet
How did everyone live like that?
In fear of a virus from a bat!
Did everyone put down their arms?
What about workers and the farms?
Did everyone stop everything?
From factories to market gathering?
No one went out to play?
Or on a holiday?
No one strolled in the park?
What a sad story with no spark!
Sonny boy! Not all that meets the eye
Is the truth or what we should buy
Let's Look further and beyond
To see how humans respond
There were doctors and nurses
Who without a care for themselves
Served every needy sick and patient
Despite lack of equipment
Tough decisions they had to make
Who to save and who to forsake
It broke their hearts and soul
Yet, they focused on the goal
To prevent loss of life and reduce pain
They tried hard, sometimes in vain
What made them not give up
Mummy, of what are they made up?
Pain and adversity have their way
They go deep within to find a way
Through the hurt and the pain
To build out the power within
Some families drew closer together
A few others broke altogether
Industries, workers had to heed
Very harsh realities indeed
Less fortunate were losing homes,
Migrating by foot, hurt by stones
Hungry for food, blisters on feet
Breathing their last on the street
Briefly, students cheered
No exams that they feared
Soon boredom and despair loomed
Everything seemed to be doomed
Through these times, a few discovered they could
Work from home
Work on their own
Do house chores
Cook
Dream
Sing
Dance
Tell stories
Play
Connect
Be generous
Serve
Discover themselves
Generally, do with less
Mummy, do tell me more
Did they forget how they lived before?
My dear boy, people didn't forget
But people didn't regret
They ventured forth to create -
New ways of being
New songs for dreaming
New dances for creating
New books for seeing
New forms of working
New norms of serving
New connections for making
The world a better place
And each of our lives worth living.
The morning rush no longer the default
People scared, holed up in no virus can stop us listening to me homes
A sight one heard of only in tomes
Did the virus win? What happened next?
Mummy, please don't stop just yet
How did everyone live like that?
In fear of a virus from a bat!
Did everyone put down their arms?
What about workers and the farms?
Did everyone stop everything?
From factories to market gathering?
No one went out to play?
Or on a holiday?
No one strolled in the park?
What a sad story with no spark!
Sonny boy! Not all that meets the eye
Is the truth or what we should buy
Let's Look further and beyond
To see how humans respond
There were doctors and nurses
Who without a care for themselves
Served every needy sick and patient
Despite lack of equipment
Tough decisions they had to make
Who to save and who to forsake
It broke their hearts and soul
Yet, they focused on the goal
To prevent loss of life and reduce pain
They tried hard, sometimes in vain
What made them not give up
Mummy, of what are they made up?
Pain and adversity have their way
They go deep within to find a way
Through the hurt and the pain
To build out the power within
Some families drew closer together
A few others broke altogether
Industries, workers had to heed
Very harsh realities indeed
Less fortunate were losing homes,
Migrating by foot, hurt by stones
Hungry for food, blisters on feet
Breathing their last on the street
Briefly, students cheered
No exams that they feared
Soon boredom and despair loomed
Everything seemed to be doomed
Through these times, a few discovered they could
Work from home
Work on their own
Do house chores
Cook
Dream
Sing
Dance
Tell stories
Play
Connect
Be generous
Serve
Discover themselves
Generally, do with less
Mummy, do tell me more
Did they forget how they lived before?
My dear boy, people didn't forget
But people didn't regret
They ventured forth to create -
New ways of being
New songs for dreaming
New dances for creating
New books for seeing
New forms of working
New norms of serving
New connections for making
The world a better place
And each of our lives worth living.
It's your turn to reflect on how you are taking this pandemic, and how you are choosing to spend your time. Let us know in the comments.
Contributed by Sreeja Iyer, CEO & Co- Founder, Sparkling Mindz Global School and Preschool.
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