The World Did Not End

I am sorry the world did not end or at the very least shudder in its orbit. It seems we have gained nothing from a one-in-26,000-year event. The world continues as it is, with all its man-wrought flaws. I grieve for us.

Lament in the Wake of a Non-Event

By Ann Wilmer-Lasky

 

The end of the world came

And went,

And nothing happened.

The world still wobbles

In its orbit,

Revealing the sun and

The moon in turn,

Reigning feast or famine

On the just and unjust

With equal fervor,

Granting life or death

With equal magnanimity,

The promise of a new world,

Or its end, yet unfulfilled.

I am saddened that no

Fierce hand reached from

The heavens to form a fist

In defiance of our injustices,

Nor offered an open hand

In support of kindness done.

In short, if the earth

Had shaken in its orbit,

We would be better off;

At least some would have

Heeded the warning.

As it lies, we are doomed

To wink out in the full light

Of our hubris.