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"I watched the world end in a brilliant flash of light. My ears were deafened by the chilling screams of despair. The earth's children wept tears of blood as flesh-scorching waves of sulfur washed their lifeless bodies away. I have pitied those limbless soldiers as they returned from war-painfully attempting to hobble home. I have held them in my arms as they discovered their homes were nothing more than smoldering shacks of flame.

"And as their fatigued faces fall further, their ailing bodies collapse and sink into the ground, they weep tears with such abandon that Despair itself is ashamed. I pray to Death to grant them mercy and silence their hearts with a kiss, but Death, ruthless joker, knows no mercy on this day.

"And as I sink further into the ending of the world, I realize, that even in the end there is talk of mercy. The saints that we turn to for guidance promise God's mercy, and those saints seek peace in the chapels of the Lord. Yet, these are the saints carrying weapons wherever they must go. The earth? Our precious, life-bearing, earth is the greatest casualty of all. Her air is poison, rancid swill; her children are gone, most of them killed, and the earth sends forth human blood.

"I found the final sign that the end was here to be the most shocking of them all. Here among the living the very dead do crawl. They walk amongst us without shame. Barely Human. Barely Sane.

"Though the world would end in a brilliant flash of light, it would foreshadow and begin humanity's bleakest night. I alone am haunted by unchanging pained expressions; I alone am surrounded by constant screams of anguished depression. Sorrow falls around me as if it were a drenching rain. The sky reflects my heart-still and utterly black. The truth reflects only hopelessness-you humans can never turn back.

"I have seen buildings topple as if they were crumbling nations. The barren fields remind me of stripped morality. And as the chilling wind blows all around me, I can feel The Rapture, nipping at my heels.

"Yet, this is not the end. We are not that lucky.

"Looking back I can hear the promise mankind has made. They promised the end would be a splendid sight to see, so I held my breath in climatic wonder for the crumbling of humanity, but now I know the truth.

"The end of the world. How many decades have we taunted the heavens with that phrase? How many horrendous ways have we envisioned going to our graves? I waited for them all- yet, no aliens came to annihilate our planet.

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