AFVOA Newletter August 2020

Section 5 - Memoirs CV 2 No. 02 / 2020 Page 84 of 237 5 My Lockdown Blues Maj Gen Jose Manavalan AVSM Genre: Poetry ’was around the Ides of March That when I turned Oh so sweet seventy A foreboding nagged me Of celebrations not to be And yes, did our lives change That fateful March day When we learnt what locked down and sewn up tight meant ! Submarines, bunkers and Siachen we knew But life like this was oh so new The four walls of our home surrounded us In a warm embrace like no other Grinding halt was what it was To be stopped in our tracks And brace for the unknown future T