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The End of the World Has Come For Some

By 24 October 2024September 13th, 2026No Comments1 min read
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End of the World

A short poem contrasting the unbearable reality of war with the quiet ordinariness of everyday life.


It’s like there
The end of the world came.
And over there
The end of the world is coming.

A little further west
I’m cool at my desk.
The Crassula ovarta I gaze past
On my window sill.

Marble clouds,
The sky pale blue,
Fir tree still,
The majestic sun –

Peaceful. Shattered
By the yellow tram –
Damn. It whirred
By on the tracks.

Palestinians gather to buy bread from a bakery in Deir el-Balah

Palestinians gather to buy bread from a bakery in Deir el-Balah [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]


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