Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death, but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit, nor in the air, nor in our lives, nor on these terraces of billowing smoke. The genuine pain that keeps everything awakeis a tiny, infinite burnon the innocent eyes of other systems.

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The poet T.S. Eliot wrote that “Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death,but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit,nor in the air, nor in our lives,nor on these terraces of billowing smoke. The genuine pain that keeps everything awakeis a tiny, infinite burnon the innocent eyes of other systems.” He is describing a feeling of hurt and helplessness for all life on Earth and how we can’t do anything about it. This true pain didn’t come from any physical wound but from witnessing our world being destroyed by war and nuclear weapons.

We all know that war is awful and that it also destroys the environment. We know that this is terrible for ourselves and our children’s future. However, we believe that these things are not real because they don’t hurt us personally.

Most of us will try to ignore war but it is there all around us every day.

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