Integral Part Poem by Sankhajit Bhattacharjee

The violent nature of humans
has given them enormous authority
to put the ferocious lions into cages,
to shoot out flying bats,
to take out poisonous venom from cobras,
but this is not the end…
The word ‘authority' is exercised against own species too-
this often leads to the use of politics.
The violent nature has given birth to
the quest for authority, which in tern
has given birth to naked politics-
the most nasty game to establish oneself
to the acme of power to rule the rest.
As the black tint of coal can never be washed away
because it is an integral part of it,
the violent nature, hence the quest for authority
can never be wiped out, and hence
politics has conquered the globe
as the integral part of life and living.