{"id":1935,"date":"2020-07-20T13:36:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T13:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2020-07-20T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T13:36:12","slug":"an-ode-to-corona-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/an-ode-to-corona-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to Corona Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Professor Muhammad Ilyas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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My mind boggles and fingers shudder<\/p>\n

As I write these lines about a crowned terror<\/p>\n

You intrigue me and a number of questions arise<\/p>\n

Who fathered you? Who groomed you? And who crowned you?<\/p>\n

And who were the people clapping hands at the coronation?<\/p>\n

A mere glow of light has made you so invincible<\/p>\n

Your movements and attacks are so invisible<\/p>\n

Like Caesar you came you saw and conquered all<\/p>\n

Can any empire claim to have done this before?<\/p>\n

I want to know your place of birth<\/p>\n

Was it a lab or the lap of Nature?<\/p>\n

You lay dormant for Aeons perhaps<\/p>\n

Deep, far deep in the snows of Ice age perhaps<\/p>\n

You flexed your muscles when snow began to thaw<\/p>\n

All this is a guess work as all do know<\/p>\n

How long will you tease us out of thought?<\/p>\n

Your place of birth was that piece of Earth perhaps<\/p>\n

Where China, Mongolia and Russia loom so large<\/p>\n

You seem to share your pedigree with Tartars<\/p>\n

Genghis Khan, Halaku khan and Tamberlane were your cousins who plagued the earth from end to end<\/p>\n

They killed a few millions just a few<\/p>\n

How many will you kill is not yet known<\/p>\n

What has made you so fierce and wild?<\/p>\n

Who will persuade you to become a bit mild?<\/p>\n

You have the mind of an unappeasable Tyrant<\/p>\n

Can we arrange a table talk to meet your demands?<\/p>\n

Calm down a little, O\u2019 wild son of Mother Nature<\/p>\n

What has made thee so igneous by nature?<\/p>\n

Historians say, \u201cScratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar\u201d<\/p>\n

Can this be said of you too, O\u2019Corona Virus?<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t boost of the power you seem to possess<\/p>\n

You are weaker than those empires of the West<\/p>\n

That granted monopolies for plunder and loot<\/p>\n

I must praise your one attribute<\/p>\n

You are best at flogging the arrogant and the rude<\/p>\n

A rude American said to a Pakistani short in stature<\/p>\n

\u201cSmall potatoes are hard to peel\u201d<\/p>\n

Keep flogging arrogance and pride<\/p>\n

To please the hearts and minds indeed<\/p>\n

You are less rapacious than kings and queens<\/p>\n

Have they forgotten what Virginia did to that innocent color?<\/p>\n

Whose lands they annexed with baynets and guns<\/p>\n

How many Wahunsunacocks they captured and killed?<\/p>\n

Many became victims of white cannibalism<\/p>\n

Have they forgotten what East India Company did to the innocent Indians?<\/p>\n

Even then they say that Corona is a ruthless killer<\/p>\n

No, I adore it and call it QAHHAR the punisher<\/p>\n

Real or fake it is being used for another evil order<\/p>\n

A myth or a fact it is being used for another cruel order<\/p>\n

\"Professor

Professor Muhammad Ilyas<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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