The last night

Time brought forward the moment that seized a night's promise of quietness, peace and rest. A common soul, sleepless, experiences the inability to describe the flow of thought and feelings, which affects even from skin to bone.
A window beside this soul offers a view which all mankind has dreaded to witness. It is the kind of view that forces any human eye to beg forgiveness of its soul to see. It is the kind of view that makes any human heart beat faster, and slower, at the same time. It is the view that has been compared to the most horrifying nightmares ever cursed in man's imagination. A view, all caused by a moment when all mankind discovered the oncoming death of their existence. It is the moment when they learnt that the powerful and intelligent species that they are shall now be terminated in an instant, as an asteroid the size of the moon comes mercilessly plunging down towards the globe.
The soul beside the window, sleepless, witnesses the last night of mankind ---unimaginably depressed, yet surprised to see a strong species, with millions of years of survival behind it, about to be wiped out in a minute's length. Outside the window are souls that have lost all sense of hope and control and are now bound to depart from life as they have known it.
Opportunities, aims, goals, hope, justice, assets, history, heritage, respect, love, indeed each and every human quality that exists or has ever existed, has lost all meaning for every human heart. Time has replaced and transferred importance and meaning to fear and despair.
All souls yet alive now await their death. A night that was looked forward to for a satisfying sleep has turned into the night that shall bring no dawn.
As the seconds and minutes slip away, never to return, the Earth shifts closer to the ultimate hour when a superior species shall face extinction. There is no hope left. Nothing will ever be the same again. Mankind lost life before the present moment, when mankind discovered that no tear would bring forth a new dawn.
For one soul, a sleepless night is not enough to describe such a spell-binding phenomenon.

Auritro Mahbub is a student at International Education Centre, Uttara.