Sputum- Fever - Decoction Poem by Rajendran Muthiah

You Englishmen with eternal thirst
to explore this Universe filled with Solar families!
The classic tongues have made you richer
to think deep and wide, learn all the arts
and sink into the ocean of pleasure,
but giving chances to COVID, the inventions
of morbid- minded hellish creatures.

The COVID blinks an alarming signal
to gulp the whole world and make it yelp in pain.
The Virus strikes a threat like the plague
which visited London and made hazardous the life
of the brave Renaissance Thomas Nashe
who used to sing in a pleasant vein
to cry in pain, pleading for mercy, from God!

Plague or an atom bomb or COVID
makes a virulent attack on humans,
though the manufacturers of these deadly things
are soft-natured, regretful and never speak harm.
The Siddha saints of ancient Tamils
had extolled the virtues of Sputum-Fever -decoction
to make any Virus flee from this world.

You proud Americans! Drink this bitter nectar
and fear the devilish, unseen microbes!
Down the shutters to all the gutters
and let my grand daughters and sons
to walk into the corridors of higher learning!