TELL 2020 TO TELL

 

TELL 2020 TO TELL

Do tell 2020 to tell if we can call Her a Pirate like Anny Bonny, or a Mary Read like Plunderer,

Or, we can call Her, like the Four Hitokiri of Bakumatsu, the cruelest Manslaughter,

Or, we can call Her a silent Thunder, a soundless Buldozer, or a Tsunami's Mother,

That dictated the sanest mankind, even in the month of May to quiver and shiver! (1)

Do tell 2020 not to fail to tell if we can call her a Sir Ralph like Buccaneer,

An illegitimate Offspring or a baneful Begetter,

An unlawful Trespasser, or a loatheful Intruder,

A punishable Poacher or an offendable Poacher that bit the mankind as a painful clutcher! (2)

Do tell 2020 to tell with the least hesitation if we can call her a Time-tested Tranquilizer,

A heartless, humane Surgeon, or a much awaited Vaccine better bitter,

A moral, sermon Preacher, a grim, useful Chastiser, or an austere, rare Character Maker, 

A hidden, heavenly Benison, an open Curse, or a sadistic, salutable Teaser!

A stern, generous Teacher, a tear-smile Fetcher, or a long sought-after Panacea,

That was needed for the whole of Europe, Africa, Americas, Australia and Asia! (3)

 Ref.

*Anny Bonny and Mary Read : 

Anne Bonny and Mary Read are two of the most famed female pirates of all time, and among the few women known to have been convicted of piracy during the early 18th century, at the height of the "Golden Age of Piracy".

*The Four Hitokiri of Bakumatsu:

The Four Hitokiri of the Bakumatsu (幕末四大人斬り, Bakumatsu Yondai Hitokiri) was a term given to four samurai during the Bakumatsu era in Japanese history.[1] The four men were Kawakami Gensai, Kirino Toshiaki (also known as Nakamura Hanjirō), Tanaka Shinbei, and Okada Izō.[2] They opposed the Tokugawa shogunate (and later, supported the Meiji Emperor). These four samurai were warrior elite and widely considered undefeatable by normal people. The word hitokiri literally means "manslayer" or "man cutter,"[3] as the kanji 人 means person, while 斬 can alternatively mean slay or cut.

Courtesy: Wikipedia, Google

 N.B. This poem is inspired by the poem "TELL 2020" penned by my  Nigerian FB friend John King Alfyan.

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 29.12.2020