The Armless Beast

Corona virus! Beautifully sculptured like a jewel Armless, with bulges of a crown But only those who narrowly escaped With scars of your sharp fangs Can tell the potency of your venom. A merciless human predator Riding on the wings of morning zephyr He rears his tent in the ventilation room Where fresh and expired air mingles Then strangles his preys Left gasping for oxygen Till they become cold and stiff. You walked into our land armless Yet even armed men trembled Naked-head birds that made news And the guardians of skulls All retreated shamefully Into dark barren caves. You have set humanity on a verge Where the sole prayer is survival A brutal infinitesimal entity Bound on eradicating mankind Indeed you are an armless beast. The halls are vacant The malls are barren The rails are silent The roads are empty The airways are clear. They say you were a gentleman Resting in the veins of forest dwellers Before our kindred in the East Went out to hunt down bush meat And returned with a big catch. One city eat meat The whole world washed hands With perfumed sanitizers That meat must be a great one!