Our Hopes For Today

Life is a bucket with a hole at the bottom.
It always looks so full as we deposit
Our share of little drops of love and hope,
Frustrating as we add to it our share of
Despair and suffering common to us all.

Though it all may seep out from the life-bucket,
Still a small droplet of hope clings at the bottom,
Stubbornly refusing to be washed out.

Hope for a little more understanding among
All who have come to inhabit this planet.
Innumerable souls housed in the bodies of many
Color and forms sharing one goal of a peaceful life.

Our wishes float like the luminous drops of water
Reflected with moonbeams by a muddy pond
Igniting calls for the aesthetic beauty of life
To be shared by all.

Our hope is for a just society and our demand
Is for sincere and compassionate leaders,
Not for the ones who think and behave
As if the life is created for the partnership
Of dominant and dominated.

Savita Tyagi

6. 2. 2020