Author: Reena Saxena

It’s been almost a year now,
We have been patiently waiting.
Waiting for a hope, a cure – a vaccine..
Now, that it is here,
Fear of the syringe , makes me go weak in the knees..

Reena’s Exploration Challenge -169

waiting and watching

what new dreamed-up colours

tinge tomorrow’s dawning

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Mindfills for

Eugi’s weekly prompt – dawning
Reena’s exploration challenge – next normal

Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge

Welcome to the next normal, as the stories around us change!

PROMPT #169

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I look at it with anticipation and dejection

The answer to humanity’s problems

It will cure all illnesses, all sickness

One of the greatest discovery of all times

A lot of hope and fear rides on this one injection

If I call it an elixir of life, I won’t be wrong

The only trouble is that it has never been tested

Not on any living being, animal, or human

And till I am given permission to use it on live subjects

How can this greatest discovery be of any use

So I wait with hope and fear

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#Keepitalive

#ReenasExplorationChallenge

कर देगी सब कुछ पहले जैसा
सुनते हैं आयी है ऐसी दवा कोई

कुछ इत्र सा फैला है फिज़ाओं में
छूकर आयी है तुझको हवा कोई

ले लेने दो हमको सुकूँ पल दो पल
मत छेड़ फिर से तू शिकवा कोई

क्या है रोज़-ओ-शब नयी बेताबी सी
हुआ अरमाँ मेरा शायद जवां कोई

है भला कहाँ का इन्साफ अमित
करे गलती कोई हो रुसवा कोई

In response to: Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 169

Protocol vaccine

the rushed clinical trials

crossroad dilemma

confusing anomalies

uncertain mind-set prevails

Reena’s Exploration Challenge# 169

confusing signals

old memories cry from afar

not one size fits all

Reena’s Exploration Challenge#169

-Eugenia

featured image – Pexels

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #168

PROMPT #168

SITUATION

A breakdown in domestic water supply

CHARACTERS

• President of a municipal corporation
• A harangued home-maker
• Founder of a fund-raising startup
• Seller of water tankers
• A poet/writer

COMPLEXITIES WHICH CAN BE ADDED

Work-from-home scenarios, Covid, weather or whatever you can think of.

TASK

Write a story as small as a sentence, or as large as 500 words, or somewhere in between. I promise to read the entire piece.

If you can tell a poetic tale or write a ballad, you are most welcome to do it.

The story has to be from the perspective of any one of the given characters. The other characters in the piece can be one or more of those listed here or any other character you can introduce in the plot. No restrictions on those self-driven bots which take over your thoughts.

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sometimes pain is so intense

grief so unbearable