I sit and ask myself why.

 

All I wanted them to do was love each other. Some of them got it, but then there were the others. Men who struggled their lives away pursuing wealth, power and status.
I suppose I could have stopped the inevitable end. It was obvious from the moment their thirst for technology outpaced their craving for compassion that they were on a path to self-destruction.

 

The last time they allowed their greed and hunger to blind them, it had taken a flood to show them the error of their ways. This time, they found a way to take themselves out without harming any of my lesser creatures.

 

I suppose it’s gonna take me another six days to clean this mess up. Then I’ll rest. .

 

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