This moment is a metaphor,
the metaphor is a war,
the war for the survival of mankind.
Its victims are those who sold weapon
its victims are those who bought the weapons,
its victims are those on whom incendiary explosives were and are being fired.
Its victims are those who armtwisted national regimes,
its victims are the benighted nations,
its victims are rich, its victims are poor.
Its victims are those who stockpile nuclear arsenal,
but have scant PPEs and Ventilators,
its victims are the stereotyped minorities.
Its victims are the old who have lived their lives,
its victims are millennials in callow youth having starry dreams,
its victims are infants and even new borns.
Its victims are those who are living lives in house arrest
fending an invisible nano scale enemy threatening to reduce the world
in a nuclear winter without any bombs being dropped.
This moment is an allegory,
which nobody knows, no one understands,
it stammers and rattles, and speaks everything at once!
Debashish is a machine learning scientist, who has been published in literary magazines several
times across the globe, including Poetry Life & Times, where he was interviewed twice.
He is currently contending with a severe writer’s block spanning a decade, when he has hardly
produced any publishable content. He is also losing emotional connection with his own work
gradually, and spends more time to edit/tighten his old poems than creating any new content.
Editor’s Note: Debashish Haar was interviewed twice in the old Poetry Life and Times, once by
Sarah Russell then Editor & later by myself as a new Editor before it folded in 2008.
The New Poetry Life & Times restarted in 2013 at Artvilla.com site, Admin David Jackson.
Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times ; You may visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)