Quoting an enlightened soul –
“In human experience, the time
that planet Earth takes to revolve
around the sun is a way
to guage what we are doing
in this world.”

Every one hundred and one
spins around sun,
mother Earth propels
us into a new year,
of unique number scheme…

The onset of last such year,
saw the sunset of
the war to end all wars;
Between then now –
we grew in population,
sprinted through industrialization,
but crawl to contain number;
we set foot on moon,
continue to fight wars,
and aspire to reach more stars;
we put power of information
in palm of our hand,
that power turned out to be
our boon and bane too…

This year of 2020
might be rather unique;
bringing the energy of
its Cricket namesake,
clarity of a certain
visual acuity,
richness of a command
any ATM would respond…

We, of today, may not be
around at dawn of 2121,
but our legacy will live,
and vehemently debated…

What we do and not do today,
is what they will get
and not get then;
The imperative to choose,
is strictly ours,
and only ours.