World -2021- — Love At The End Of The

He said, “If this is the end, I’m glad it’s with you.”

love, apocalypse, memory, hope We didn’t know it then, but 2021 was a year of small endings. Not the dramatic, fire-and-brimstone kind — more like the slow fade of a song you didn’t realize was playing. love at the end of the world -2021-

[imagined: December 31, 2021]

I remember sitting on a fire escape in April, sharing one pair of gloves with someone I’d only known for three weeks. The city was quiet. No planes. No traffic. Just the sound of us breathing, and the distant hum of a world holding its breath. He said, “If this is the end, I’m glad it’s with you

— for everyone who loved through the static “If this is the end

And yet.