Great Writing - Home > Poetry > The Way the World Ends
READING ROOM
Great Writing - Home
Read and review others' work
Articles on writing
Advice from the community
COMMUNITY
Talk to others in the forums
Events and Competitions
GW News
ABOUT GREAT WRITING
All About Us
Contact Us
WORK AWAITING REVIEW
GW IS...
Great Writing creative writing community is designed to prompt ideas and provide inspiration and motivation within aspiring and amateur authors. Whatever your topic; from love poetry to Doctor Who or Harry Potter fan fiction, Great Writing's online writing group is where you can make new friends and improve your creative writing.
WHO'S ONLINE
We have 1436 guests online and 2 members online
Poetry
The Way the World Ends
By rilLie
30 July 2007
This was inspired by a quote from TS Eliot's Hollow Men ~ "This is the way the world ends -- Not with a bang but a whimper." I found it in a quotes site while I was surfing the net, and it sort of made me think. :)

Poems like these usually come whenever I'm hungry, so yeah. lol. attack as you please. :)

This is the way the world ends --
the finale of all the world --
when cries of fury overcome
what is never told.

Of secrets and lies, the world will see,
but miss delight and joyous smiles,
the end will come, and out will burst,
the truth, the reality, that man defiled.

And then will we see what very soon comes,
what we shan't escape forever,
when tears and fear reside, no more shouts and bangs,
it all ends with but a wimper.

Reviews

Written by Fledermaus (3448 comments posted) 30th July 2007
Perhaps... Who knows? I supose that the planet earth will eventually be swallowed by the sun over billions of years, but that there won't be any humans left to witness it. As for the end of humanity... I fear that both you and the bible might be frighteningly accurate... Unless of course startrek is right instead. 
 
An interesting poem.

Written by Phil (6828 comments posted) 31st July 2007
Interesting indeed. I'm not sure we'll last until the whimper. I tend to avoid contemplating the apocalyptic - too mixed up in religious nonsense.  
 
Lots to think about in this rilLie. 
 
Phil

   Only registered users can rate and write comments.
   Please login or register.

Powered by AkoComment 2.0!

 Previous item   Next item