I Have Lost Faith In You For the Malayalam version, Nashta Viswasikal, click here. Like the unknown future stretches this narrow, winding path over this lonely riverbank. Along this way uphill in this dark and gloomy night walk the two of us. We have walked through this incense-filled atmosphere searching for truth but never finding it. With lighted candles in hands we prayed through the nights on bended knees, counting beads. We saw all those who said: ‘This is the one and only way’ fighting and falling on their way. We saw the broken wings of love as we went along this path with no beginning or end. Like shattered dreams that went to sleep the temple-lamps have died. Searching for the Gods who never open their eyes we wandered in the dark. The idols you built from the five holy metals have fallen to the ground and broke. Ages slept through the nights never wiping the tears of the downtrodden. Who made the rules that justify the oppression of fellow human beings? How was it possible for you to sleep silently through these dark and gloomy nights? Your laws prevent me reaching my full potentials; Did you ever raise your voice in protest? No wonder, I have lost faith in you and your social justice and all that you say, you hold so high. 13.1.1997
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