The End of The End

    The Inayans predicted it! Three whole days of small meteor showers, small volcanic eruptions, small quakes, endless rains, heat waves, dried rivers, overflowing rivers, then the final river of flame that would sweep the earth and turn it into ice. Sub zero. But before that, before that day, is the Calm,

     According to Inayan scripture, after the chaos of three(days) would be four days of shadow, shrouded by the total eclipse of the... After that, would be the apocalypse, the Armageddon, the vanishing point, the final judgment, the final countdown, the end of the world as we know it, the bitter end, the end of days, Day of reckoning, Ragnarok, Revelation, Amen.

   There was too much evidence to  even seed doubt, everybody, even the skeptics, the hopefuls, the lovers and priests believed! The hermits and the dogs! It was the new religion, the most followed page, most liked status, the talk of town, Amen.

      In this darkness came an enlightenment, what happened next was the orgy of the century, knowing there is no tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, people stopped preaching love and made love, whenever, wherever, virgins opened their vessels, homo-phobics passionately kissed homosexuals, enemies became friends, then in brotherly and sisterly compassion, students graduated, contractuals were regularized, prisoners were pardoned, then in renewed understanding of wealth, property and power, CEOs resigned, Leaders and politicians resigned,

     It was the climax of the zenith of the paragon, borders were erased, shops opened for free, all debts were cleared, banks opened their vaults, guns were fired, were set on fire, bonfires, barbecues and weddings were everywhere, tax certificates were ceremoniously torn! Kalayaan!

     The booze kept on flowing, the kisses kept on flowing, the bonfires kept on burning, burning with desire, people kept on dancing, while the remaining energy left was used to power the party of all parties, the Mardi Gras of all Mardi Gras, the grand celebration for the conclusion, the denouement, the unraveling of the plot, the season finale.

     Then came the fourth day, And while the world was in this euphoria, the faithfuls counted: 5 hours..4 hours..3.4  hours 2  hours, one hr left... in seconds

   3...

   2..

   1.

    Nothing happened! Nil,

   The world sobered  up from the greatest party ever and  realized something was terribly, horribly, horrendously wrong. The  faithfuls locked themselves in silence.

    It was Juan de la Cruz, professor emerituz, protege of Nostradamuz, CPA, Phd in eschatology (study of the end), discoverer of the 78th name of God, Grand Regent of the University of the Universe, linguist extraordinaire ..etc.etc. who took a second look at the Inayan scripture and proclaimed in a voice, sculpted from the thousands of lectures he gave..

     "We have not read the Inayans critically...the end of days is set to come in another 4 centuries not 4 days, the fact starts at tablet 6 line 5 when the Inayans said..."(his voice was no longer heard amid the cries of disbelief, boos, then cheers, then disbelief again as some shut down their TVs and laptops- oh and tablets)

    The sun came back.

   Stoned, stupefied, shamed, naked bodies, destroyed shops, conflagrated contracts, torn taxes, erased borders, companies reduced to groupies, virginities lost, wet lips, islands given away,

     In vain everyone tried to get back what they gave, kisses, jobs, power, control, islands, chains  and just in vain everyone tried to keep what they got, free lunch, memory of an ecstasy,  a climb up the ladder,  vacations,

     No one was willing to let go of what they gained. Everyone was willing to regain what was lost and more, during those short 4 days of giving and receiving..of tasting and letting go.

    Always on schedule, the end came. By fire and by ice.