Normal War

So far the war has been like all wars so far.
For whole towns and families the world’s over,
But the world at large, the human world, goes on.

The war that many are waiting for, the war
At the end of the world that concludes the world,
War prefigured in millenniums of art,

Does seem closer thanks to the latest war, but
That’s been true before. For now it has to wait
While normal war ends worlds at war’s normal rate.