I pass by the road and see someone risk their life to help an elderly cross the road
I see a mother going hungry to save food for her baby
I watch at the bank office – a brother anonymously clearing off his spoilt sibling’s debt
I see the invisible cape
I see the hidden superhero
I see the selflessness
We all know him
Some as a parent, a grandparent, a sibling, a cousin
Or a teacher, a co-worker, a friend
We all have that one person in our life
Who wears the cape of selflessness
It’s the one person we can always count on
Someone you can always run to for help and will never be refused
Who doesn’t expect anything in return from you
Who will simply respect your needs and give you all that he can
This cape is not an easy one to carry
It’s not something that you can pretend to wear
It’s only real purity of heart and intent
That allows it to sit on your shoulders
Those who wear it are oblivious to what the world thinks or does
All they know is to help and give all that they have
To the needy, without any assessment of whether they deserve it or not
Without any judgment on their part
It’s these little beings
Those are nature’s best creations
They are the ones who maintain the earthly balance with their goodness virtues
Making them the real superheroes in our practical world
It’s almost impossible to ever repay them
For all that they do for us
And the ironic part here is
They couldn’t care less about the repay
I wonder what is it that prompts them to be so selfless
To never think twice when they sense need
To never fear their own resultant insufficiencies
To never bear the complex cost-benefit calculations of today’s world
And as you read these lines
I say think of all these superheroes with the selfless cape in your life
All that they have done to make you who you are today
And who have always done so unconditionally
Today as I thank all of them
The selfless superheroes of my life
I cannot help but ask God with overwhelming eyes
God, what did I do to deserve such gems in my life?
There is no quality that I respect more
And neither one that I idolize more
God give me the strength to incorporate at least a fraction of this virtue
I would then have a chance to believe that I at least partly deserve to share the same Earth
That these superhero beings live on.
Salute to the cape of selflessness
The curious crackle 