I was lying in bed the other day waiting for the end of the world.
I didn’t honestly believe it would come, but one of the news sites that I’m reading promised it would happen, and that it would happen that night, and I was wondering how it feels to be burned alive.
I was thinking about Frost’s ‘Fire and Ice’
Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

He lived in a very interesting time and I believe that today with religious extremists on the one hand and tyranny on the other we are in the same situation as described in the poem, but perhaps there is an equilibrium that prevents the end of the world to come.
But still the end of the world could be a very private affair. Take Lord Alfred Tennyson for example:
Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.

O well for the fisherman’s boy,
That he shouts with his sister at play!
O well for the sailor lad,
That he sings in his boat on the bay!

And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!

Break, break, break,
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.
While someone is experiencing the end of the world someone else could be having the greatest time in the world. Tennyson’s private end of the world proved to be very productive for him. Tennyson used his private hell in his poetry all of his life, even when his condition was better and he became A Poet Laureate.
On the other hand the end of the world won’t necessarily kill you, like Eve Lipska says in her poem ‘Flood Didn’t Save Me’:
The end of the world didn’t save me
because it didn’t have time.
Nothing saved me.
I AM ALIVE.

So what is this end of the world as we know it?
What does the end of the world mean to you? How would you describe the end of the world?