Jan van Goyen
View of Dordrecht
Gallery 24
Marwan Marsenburg
The End Will Never End
It seems as if the End will Never End,
Here in a dark place with no food to eat,
And no light to lift such a depressed and gloomy sky
that fits the feelings of the people below it.
No stores or markets, just a town of famine
built around water centered with a church for the
religious faith of the Dutch culture.
But the church is nothing but rust and will not save
a living soul from hunger and thirst.
So the scattering town takes to
the water in search of new land, food and shelter,
on little boats built to hold 5 but filled with dozens
little children sick and crying, sick and dying
starving for life. When will it end
When it is already ending?