No Man is an Island…

Was Donne an epochal overseer
Who prophesied the outcome?
Dictated mankind to be cooped
In a hideout shelter for sheer fear
Deadlier in nature got us shrunk

Had the power to close mankind
In each human lair meant to be cell
The human zoo had been overcrowded
Albeean foresight made it relevant
On other occasions, we would mudsling

Over each other and cast aspersion
Critical juncture netted the human race
Under one roof of the cosmos today
Sought to hug together for cooperation
Bonhomie had the buzzword for peace

Claustrophobic miasma rot the globe
Coercion had been imposed for good
No road casualty, no rape, no mugging
Only the isolation whispered on a street
Shorn of human thoroughfare there

No one heard the hymn-like chanting
But painful seclusion for mayhem
Each house had been a saner yard
For the dim and dusky fear darkens
And hark! He knocks their pantings hard!

No one is alone today; no country, too
No one is independent;
Each one relies on others
Each country is not self-sufficient
Part of the whole universe, they rebuild
© Basudev Paul