Ultimatum Poem by Sankhajit Bhattacharjee

Our body will burn into ashes and smoke like a cigarette
or decompose like a rotten egg inside the ever darkness of the graves-
this is our ultimatum- our demise.
Our dreams, thoughts, words and actions;
our senses, mind and heart;
our love-hatred, peace-wrath, sacrifice-passion, good-bad-
all will plunge into utter dullness.
On the lap of this beautiful nature
we can never take rest forever,
our time is permitted only for a while
compared to the existence of this everlasting universe.
Leaving the nature, land, society, family, allies, relatives, colleagues...,
leaving the sweetest gift- the life
we will travel for the unknown with a promise forever-
we will return no more.
Sooner or later all will face this ultimatum-
a natural, time-bound and law-dictated phenomenon.