Marching
with Renewed Motives!
Untouched
is the world
Caused by a coronavirus pandemic.
Baffled
are the people worldwide
To comprehend, combat and cope with it.
Broken
is the long-preserving philosophy
Of religious faith practices,
traditions and patterns.
Boisterous
are the wild and domestic creatures
As no human is found on a road to
deprive of their freedom.
Far-fetched
is the loss of economy
At family, corporate, national and
global level.
Could
this epidemic be considered rather a third world war?
The whole world is at stake now.
It
is a terrific war not between the resentful countries
But a living and killing entities.
The
battle is historical and actually unprecedented in modern times;
The daily occurrences, what we hear these days,
happen beyond limits.
Ideally,
the world goes indoors and prolongs its lockdown,
Pragmatically, the poor have no
doors and live unroofed.
The
politicians are unprepared and retrogressive in fighting against COVID,
Consequently, their original
capacity and commitment have been disclosed.
On
the contrary,
The
growing problem of domestic violence has no end;
Casteist atrocities, abuses, rapes
and deaths are unstoppable even at this menace.
It
makes clear that COVID’s social distancing is less cruel than Dalit’s distress;
Untouchability is more discriminatory
than physical distancing.
What
we go through a kind of social distancing is slightly similar to
What precisely the exclusion of the marginalized
for ages.
COIVD
unwontedly put us all in experiencing the Dalit way of living
The way we live today will expire at
some point but no longer for the Dalits.
A
common affirmation of an absence of one’s existence stands up while staying
indoors
How it will be then for Dalits being contrived
for generation after generation!
Dehumanized,
victimized, oppressed and marginalized are the Dalits;
The adherence to a caste system is
more venomous than Coronavirus.
Casteism
and apartheid as a virus killed more in the world than C-virus
No vaccine been found yet to
terminate neither of them.
The
road to life is apparently messed up and our lives become stagnant;
The change needed is really in our hearts and
not elsewhere.
It’s
time to deconstruct the driving ideologies and traditions critically,
In order to reconstruct the just
human-society universally.
In
addition,
COIVD
prompts us to move from the era of change to a change of era!
Let
bygones be bygones
No
matter what we lose during the quarantine
No
wonder what we gain at this juncture
What
matters is this…
The
audacity to hope!
A
daring dream for better future;
An
optimistic outlook to step forward;
Let’s
get down to a new normal.
Keep
your pecker up!
“The
roads are not diverged but muddled up at present.
I am sorry
and perplexed that I could not tread ahead…
At one point,
I thought a while and endeavored to create a unique path
to march
with renewed motives.
And so, I rediscover
my way steering - striving & shining!
P. Theophine Michael SJ