Work From Home

By Mounika Kundurthi

From homework to work from home

First, we pay for the work we get

Latter, we get paid for the work we do

The line between office and home

Merged into a laptop and desk zone

Days became more periodic with random swings.

There all tend to do the same at least pretend to Here, part of others online class, kitchen crew, Neighbors’ chores, children’s games too.

Missing real faces, live meeting, open

Air games, cafeteria chitchat and fun.

Solitude is my attitude now.

Silent nights, Restless minds, tic tic keyboard sounds.

Like brought fish from a river

To keep in an aquarium cubic

Distant in a home from peers

Artificial setup was done to mimic.

But differs based on one’s status.

By Mounika Kundurthi