The Green Tricycle: Issue #4: Earth: Oren Shafir

Issue 4:
Earth
Oren Shafir

Ragnarok

I am nothing; I am everything

A wolf so huge
It can stretch its jaws
From earth to Heaven
Swallows the sun

A serpent so great
It can fill the seas
And cover the shores
Sets fire to the Great Tree

The Tree tears loose
Spreads its fiery leaves
Across the world
Dragging down the stars

Deep water rolls; sea covers sea
Sea without shore
The tree has become ashes
The ocean has risen over the earth

Water, water everywhere
I am without form and void
Yet I can take any form
I am like water

I am nothing; I am everything

~Oren Shafir

Oren's poetry and short stories have appeared in Akkadian, Eclectica and The Blue Moon Review. He lives in Denmark with his family. Email.