<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div>The World Ended Today</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">“We cannot live alone in a world of wounds.” A. Leopold</span></div><div><br></div><div>The world ended today</div><div>But no one noticed</div><div>Just another day</div><div>Business as usual.</div><div>No one noticed</div><div>The holocaust of animal genocide</div><div>The ghost oceans, the withered soil</div><div>Judas in the White House</div><div>America hanging on the Cross.</div><div>Trophies handed out for the best lies.</div><div>Trophies for the head of a lion</div><div>Tail of an elephant, feathers of a turtle dove</div><div>Wings of a monarch butterfly.</div><div>Children marinate in cages at the borders of greed and hate.</div><div>The world ended again today.</div><div>Floods and fires, air gasping for breath</div><div>Wisdom shipwrecked on dead languages</div><div>Rewritten history, swindled education</div><div>Surrendered truth. Words disappearing</div><div>As we speak in grunts and groans</div><div>Whimpers and shrieks</div><div>Or stunned silences</div><div>Where are you lovers of liberty?</div><div>“When in the course of human events”</div><div>Again and again the world ends.</div><div>The moon looks on pityingly</div><div>As humanity shrinks away from the sight of</div><div>Hell on earth.</div><div>Paradise bleeds out from the rotting corpses</div><div>Of love.</div><div>“We hold these truths to be self evident”</div><div>The world ends again beneath the avalanche</div><div>Concussion after concussion of hope.</div><div>But it is just another day</div><div>Business as usual</div><div>Crack open another beer or bottle of wine</div><div>Eat up and shut up. </div><div>Guns locked and loaded.</div><div>Television casual distraction from the massacre</div><div>Of justice. We are mesmerized like a school of fish</div><div>Swept up in the sly antics of the internet.</div><div>Who wins or who loses is so important that</div><div>We cannot hear above the applause cheers furtive</div><div>Buying and selling marching troops threats scandal</div><div>The nuclear subs circling like sharks the climate ticking away</div><div>Media frenzy, our own ravaged lives,some homeless and others</div><div>Losing the home of self respect replaced by shame and terror. </div><div>But it is just another day</div><div>The world has ended again</div><div>And no one noticed.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Gail Onion</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>