The fabric of loss extends
Beyond boundaries
Beyond global fissures and conflicts
To inflict untold miseries on humanity
A satanic gossamer springing to life
Spreading far and wide
Sowing the seeds of hatred and violence
Entrenching the belief that one can live
Only through the elimination of the other
That to destroy and annihilate
Is to create a world order
Of one idea, one view, oneupmanship
Where the numerals two, three, four
Do not quite exist
And where the word ‘diversity’ sounds alien

A desperate effort to straitjacket the human species
Along a uniform assembly line
Denying and defying all natural laws of evolution
Of variety, of richness, of growth
An effort going against the very grain of civilisation
And so destined to fail in the long run
While one patiently waits for not one
But multiple messiahs
To impart humaneness to humanity
To deliver our race from the present state of helplessness, anguish and chaos

Subir Chakraborty
13th Oct 2024