End Times

As I stood there surveying the blasted landscape knowing in my soul this is the end, yet finding comfort in that fact, I waited.

The ground started to tremble beneath my feet, growing stronger as if the earth was an enraged animal convulsing, trying to throw me from it's back.
I dropped to my knees with my hands on the ground, trying to keep myself righted as I watched the dust and gravel bounce between my blood stained fingers.

Then the cracks came, even tho I expected this and was at peace with my fate, my heart lurched at what I saw.
The ground started disintegrating beneath me, cracks spread rapidly, growing like a cancer swallowing everything in their path.
I watched as buildings disappeared, swallowed whole so fast and without sound, except that of the rumbling tearing of earth and asphalt. Even the abandoned cars who's alarms were set off by all the commotion were slowly being silenced, their cries for help fading gradually away as they too were consumed by the void.

And still I waited…as if I was being saved for last, as if I was being given the privilege to watch how easily mankind is wiped from existence by the vengeful God of old who would smite those who dared not believe in his terrible glory. But this was no act of God, not even an act of Satan, who I'm sure would have revelled in humanities destruction.
No this was the last gift mankind gave itself, one last gift to the galaxy, to the universe. Total and complete annihilation, wiping itself from the history books. Saving any other races and species past, present or future the horrors and wretched wickedness man had invented in his brief attempt to become God after failing to find one.

Staring into the void now and feeling it stare into me, turns out that really is true. I knew why this had to be, war, famine, poverty and gluttonous greed, desecration and dissolution. Apathy.

But as I plummet downwards all reasoning and rationality is striped from me, flayed from my mind and my soul leaving my essence bare. I laugh. How free I feel, now is the end of time... isn't it? No there's more. I'm not alone anymore my essence is merging with something, not something no. I'm merging with everything. I am one I am all, we are the alpha, the omega. We are in you, you are us. Just as we learn and grow from life, from death and experiences in between, so must you learn from us. This is our gift to you.