The Monster We’ve Awoken

The sun rose into the sky to a chorus of birds awakening the rest of the world. Nature thrived and it was beautiful and perfect in it’s own flawed way... until humans arrived and began to dominate. That day, a creature stirred in her sleep. Her eyes fluttered open and she licked her chops greedily, eager for the death that would come all too soon. Stalking her prey, she crept closer. Human-kind rushed around, panicked at her razor-sharp claws and dagger-like incisors and the thought of their destruction. They blamed eachother, denied her obvious existence, refused to listen to possible deffense tactics, and delayed their counteraction: however the monster did not care for their petty disagreements. Perhaps it was inevitable. Perhaps it was fate. Perhaps it was a blip in history that would never be remembered. Perhaps it was many things. But one thing is for sure: humans had awoken her and now all life would suffer. She enveloped the world, breathing toxic fumes into the air, smothering life and destroying the only planet as far as we know that can be called “home”. The candle of hope and life was extinguished and all that remained was a barren, hostile planet floating in the vast universe. There was no longer meaning in its existence and nothing more mattered.