I no longer fear the terrors of the Day of Judgment, for I have already witnessed a hundred doomsdays in this brief, two-day life.
The poet captures a poignant truth about suffering: when life itself repeatedly breaks you, the dread of any ultimate doomsday simply evaporates. Calling our brief earthly stay a 'two-day life' while claiming to have endured a hundred apocalypses inside it brings out a sharp, bittersweet irony. It speaks in the voice of a weary soul who isn't fearless out of pride, but because real life has already exhausted every horror imaginable.
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