Arrow Rock Literary Journal

Baby, I’m an apocalyptic dream!

There’s nobody quite like me,

I am the beginning of the end—

a disaster caught in the palm of your hand!

Destruction burns through my blood,

can you taste it on your lips, love?

I am the one prophecy you couldn’t predict,

the haunted bones lying beneath your crypt!

I am my own death, as well as yours.

So, whatever are we doing this for?

There is no mercy at the end of the world,

nothing left but these sins to be purged!

You were doomed to love me, and burdened with the hurt I was to bring.

I warned you from the start, it is but my nature darling.

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Raya Kruger is a transfer student from St. Louis Community College and is currently a junior at Lindenwood University. He is earning his degree in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. In his free time, he enjoys buying books (ignoring the many others on his shelf), rereading Six of Crows, and writing poetry, short stories, and nonfiction pieces. He is a biracial transgender writer and often shares his experiences in his work.