The New Normal?

The mask of friendliness, the mask of kindness

We have been wearing these for a while

But never will we learn to wear

The mask that saves our lives

Cover your noses and mouths

Cover lest the pathogen thrives

But our noses have always cheated

Sniffing into others personal lives

Wash hands with soaps and sanitizers

Kill the virus and save the game

Well doesn’t this sound familiar?

Washing our hands and passing the blame

Social distancing is the new normal

Oh yes! This one we are used to isn’t it?

Just the old normalcy of discrimination

For caste cleaning we do use it.

-Sydney Billford Monteiro