Was not what we thought it would be.
There was
                           no meteor,
                                              no tsunami.
The trees
            didn’t set themselves aflame
                                                   and burn
                                                        the earth whole.

Instead it was
                                a long pause.
Forgetting

                                         your face.

The minnows in the pond,
still the same                                                 
                                        and yet, different.

We ended the world
                                  and then
                                                     we kept on living.