How Can The World Be Ending?

How can the world be ending
when there is music on the radio
when somewhere a new life is being born
right now and now and now
a thousand more by now
when I’m chopping carrots and still have
dinner to cook
children to bathe
and kiss goodnight,
when there are
still so many things I want to do
and none of them were supposed to be
saving the world
and still the poems come,
still the energy flows,
my breath still flows through me,
love flows through me still.
How can I feel so alive
and how can the world be ending?