Bloodfire, Baby

You have to understand that the universe is imploding, the planet is dying, we’ve been told this so many times and I know I know I know that this is the end because surely, at the end there is so much blood. Surely at the end I am on my hands and knees cleaning, trying to gather it all, put it all back but I’ve killed her, there’s no reversing this. Hell and brimstone, cleansing and renewal. This is what was preached to me. And briefly, I promise it is briefly, I think: What would have happened if we hadn’t had a baby? What would we have done, who would I have been? If this hadn’t been a thing, if this hadn’t been an aim? What else. What else. I don’t take it back, but I want to know the other possibilities, how else could this have ended?