TheBanyanTree: If the World Ends Tomorrow

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If the world had ended today, I'd have never known that it was coming or why
it happened; I don;t always watch the news to catch those blurbs of
impending doom and gloom.  I'd have gone in a puff; mid sentence, mid
thought, mid life.  Perhaps I'd have thought I just up and died, simply
that, a snuff out.  Unaware that it was a mass exodus of major snuff out
proportions.  Still.  I'd have been gone, regardless, and wouldn't have
known there was no one left to miss me.

I'd have burned a shadow into the steps of my last shuffle.

The coffee pot would have been left on, clothes in the dryer, sad thoughts
lingering.  The last embrace of my children wiped from my memory by a
blast.

I wonder if I'd have heard the blast?  Do you think there will be a blast?

Is it noisy, a world ending?  I'm imagining it as fast; is it excrutiatingly
slow?

Is it slowly happening now?


Maria


On 9/10/08, Russ Doden <russ.doden at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If the world ends tomorrow
> I'll will havel felt the rain today
> And have smelled flowers blooming
> And heard the birds joyful song
>
> If the world ends tomorrow
> I will have seen so many things
> I will know miracles do happen
> Small though the sometimes are
>
> If the world ends tomorrow
> Through the rain and the flowers
> The birds and the miracles,
> I will have known the face of God
>
> If the world ends tomorrow
> That won't be the end of things
> It will simply be a change
> A shift from what we know
>
> If the world doesn't end tomorrow
> These things will still be here
> Birds will continue to sing and flowers bloom
> Rain will fall and all will be a miracle
>
> If the world doesn't end tomorrow
> I will get another chance
> To live my life in joy
> And wonder
>
> Crystal Heart
>