At The End Of The World
It is the end of the world and God is gone.
The sun rises black behind the trees.
Humanity falls quiet under its terrible gaze.
Death appears, to guide the living,
who beg for candles to illuminate their path.
Trees turn to ash, mountains fall, the sea boils dry.
Death shows the living the way to hell,
with nothing but a pale hand,
and a whisper, that they will be happy there,
for the light and the fire never go out.
Katie Melcalfe 2016