The World Ended Today - Gail Onion

[Larry Robinson]


The World Ended Today

				“We cannot live alone in a world of wounds.” A. Leopold

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

	- Gail Onion

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