Would You Lie With Me (Interlude- 6/16)
For full warnings and author's notes, please go here
Chapter Four
The world didn’t end in one big catastrophic event, the way the prophets liked to predict. There were no riders that came storming in and claiming lives from high atop their deadly mounts. The world didn’t wait for the twelfth of December, the year of our Lord two thousand and twelve. It wasn’t considerate enough to just call it quits at the turn of the second millennium. It wasn’t on a clock, and to think that any sort of counting system humans could impose upon the universe could dictate the chain of events was arrogant and ignorant.
The world took her time shutting down and stepping out. Like a fire that burns bright until nearly everything is consumed, humanity was scrubbed from the earth in an outbreak of rapid events, and then everything continued to simmer quietly, eating away at what was left, like the hottest coals hidden in the cracks and crevices of the debris. Bridges took their time crumbling and wildlife crept back almost shyly into territory once stolen from them by concrete and steel.
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of its own fiery demise, those that were left picked up the pieces of their shattered and crushed lives. They cleaned their wounds and limped to the sidelines and watched as everything they once knew eroded into something entirely new, but not completely devastating. The end was really only the beginning, and the phoenix spread its wings and flew into the sun, singing of pain and joy and new beginnings.
Chapter Five
back to masterpost
Chapter Four
The world didn’t end in one big catastrophic event, the way the prophets liked to predict. There were no riders that came storming in and claiming lives from high atop their deadly mounts. The world didn’t wait for the twelfth of December, the year of our Lord two thousand and twelve. It wasn’t considerate enough to just call it quits at the turn of the second millennium. It wasn’t on a clock, and to think that any sort of counting system humans could impose upon the universe could dictate the chain of events was arrogant and ignorant.
The world took her time shutting down and stepping out. Like a fire that burns bright until nearly everything is consumed, humanity was scrubbed from the earth in an outbreak of rapid events, and then everything continued to simmer quietly, eating away at what was left, like the hottest coals hidden in the cracks and crevices of the debris. Bridges took their time crumbling and wildlife crept back almost shyly into territory once stolen from them by concrete and steel.
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of its own fiery demise, those that were left picked up the pieces of their shattered and crushed lives. They cleaned their wounds and limped to the sidelines and watched as everything they once knew eroded into something entirely new, but not completely devastating. The end was really only the beginning, and the phoenix spread its wings and flew into the sun, singing of pain and joy and new beginnings.
Chapter Five
back to masterpost