So this is how the world ends:
with a bang
and a wimper
and a rattle and cry.

The world ends a thousand ways
every day
as the world that was
changes into
the world that is.

They say that every seven years
a human being becomes entirely different
as all of its parts are renewed
transformed from their previous state.
A human has only 206 bones
(from what once was 230)
and the earth has at least twice that number
of things within it.
How quickly can the planet
become something new?

Daily
the world refreshes.
Minutely
the world transforms.
We witness it all the time
but are immune to its wonder
perhaps because
we mortals
are so used to death

Just so
we are equally unconcerned
with life bursting all around us.