Fighting A Losing Battle... Poem by Ruta Mohapatra

Are not we all?
Knowing that the script
Has been finalized
The end already decided

What else can we do
Except to walk the path
Made for us
That each of our ancestors took?

Whose bones lie as fossils
Whose footprints adorn the lava trails
And whose arts immortalized in caves
Who left us a message…

Enjoy, enjoy the journey
The beauty, the sunshine
The rainbow, the spring blossoms
Till the curtain falls…