The World Is Self Destructing Poem by Mary Nagy

The World Is Self Destructing



The world is feeling pain now.
It's not just ''over there''.
Tragedy is striking and
it's hurting everywhere.

From bomb blasts to tsunamis,
now another hurricane.
Theres so much devastation.
In the end what will remain?

Has the whole world just gone crazy?
Do we see what's taking place?
The world is self-destructing
and we have no hiding place.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Herbert Nehrlich1 01 September 2005

Yes, it sure looks that way. The 4th Reich is here in the disguise of an altruistic Big Pharma-Medical Complex that aims to make all of us dependent by treating imaginary disease in the healthy and causing as many illnesses as they can. The world lost most of its humane nature in the 1950's. Good poem Mary. H

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Brian Dorn 02 September 2006

A great ending that summed up the poem brilliantly. Well done, Mary! ! Brian

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Tony Jennett 04 November 2005

Hope was the last thing to come out of Pandora's box Mary

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Uriah Hamilton 01 September 2005

Mary, I think this is a powerful poem filled with sad truth.

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Theorem Thetruthserum 01 September 2005

Very nice...you are right...there are many problems now and many of the peoples poems in here are on the war while there are other hardships to be addressed. Good poem.

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John Kay 01 September 2005

Mary...you have a strong 'idea' here, but 'things' rather than ideas make for strong poems. I'm imagining an old woman in her attick in the dark by herself listening to the roar of the increasing wind rip at the roof. She knows she will probably die. What do you imagine she might be thinking-maybe something simple: the cat she loved when she was a child or a sunset watched with her husband before he died years ago. I'm suggesting you take your idea and plant it firmly in the ground. Find a specific tragedy to make your idea seem real without stating it.

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