A SAVIOUR : Dr Mallika Tripathi

A SAVIOUR 

Dr Mallika Tripathi 

My heart aches at the sight of suffering souls;

At times a strange helplessness overwhelms me.

Within my chest a quiet hemorrhage of empathy flows

As the theatre of power and politics performs its ruthless script.

I watch, almost bewildered,

How money rules, How innocence is crushed,

How fragile lives are extinguished like forgotten candles,

While masked demons celebrate behind curtains of hypocrisy.

For a moment despair attempts to conquer my spirit,

Yet surrender is a language my soul has never learned.

Within me lives a strange and sacred inheritance,

A relentless will to protect the fading light of humanity, 

A saviour.

I have walked through battlefields of broken hopes,

Seen dreams burn and people dissolve into dust,

Yet faith in goodness stands within me like an unshaken pillar.

For a heart that beats with purity and selfless courage

Is a force no darkness can permanently eclipse.

And deep within my certainty echoes a timeless truth:

Evil may roar for a while

But it is goodness that is destined to emerge victorious.

( Dr. Mallika Tripathi is a poet and academician cum story writer from UP India. She teaches in Firoze Gandhi Institute of Engg and Technology. Her recently published book of fiction is “Where Silence Learned to Breathe" )