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No certainty is left when The earth shakes beneath our feet: A sudden shock in a place Which people have only left, A place, almost forgotten. No honesty can be seen Where danger is traded for gain: A school built quick and reckless. That this of all buildings Should collapse, new before old. No order in a world where Those at life’s threshold Leave before all others: How much there was still To say, to show and to give. How much there was still To watch, how much to share. The unwanted attention of strangers, The public pain of our times Quickly gives way To enduring grief. Thoughts of the last days Linger in the mind. The last time for Every commonplace thing. And a last hurried kiss Is cherished now forever. |
