Modern Day Superheroes
Modern Day Superheroes By Swadha Rawat Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels Our generation Grew up watching Superman take flight over film reel And flipping the worn pages of Iron Man comics. Hearing cries of “Avengers Assemble” And dreaming of bat mobiles that rumbled through smoky streets. Recalling tales of super human legends: Of Hercules’s Labours that numbered twelve And Vishnu’s popular incarnations that ten times here dwelled. Today, though People are piled up in hospitals Coughing fits, and shivers, Ventilators, blankets and bodies clutter the halls. You and I, most likely, Are sequestered in our homes, hands slathered with sanitizer And watching the tally on our phones. On the frontlines, today, There dwell, modern day, real superheroes More alive than any of our books or movies or dusty tales of old. Helping others breath At the expense of their own. In the light bleached corridors and The creaking metal beds of the hospital floor, Beeping monitors and rapidly beating heart