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My eyes traced the horrific numbers sprawled across the makeshift chalkboard. 100 million in the United States, close to a billion in China. The world was hemorrhaging life, and there was no tourniquet in sight.
“I don’t understand,” I murmured, my fingers tracing over the rough chalk. “How could we let this happen?”
The echoes of London’s fallen bells haunted my dreams, the Kremlin’s empty corridors loomed in my nightmares. Beijing was a ghost town, Taiwan a graveyard. Japan…Japan was silent.
“The consequences,” I muttered, swallowing hard. “We did this to ourselves.”
My heart pounded in my chest as I contemplated our handiwork. We had birthed a war of apocalyptic proportions, nurtured it with our hate and greed, and now we were paying the price.
“Why?” I questioned, my voice barely above a whisper. “Why couldn’t we see the consequences?”
My sleep was plagued by nightmares of blood-soaked fields and lifeless cities. Each night was a torturous reminder of our folly.
“Why are we so blind?” I wondered aloud, my hands shaking as I wiped away at the damning numbers. “Why did we spend trillions on war when we could have been building homes? Planting crops?”
I slumped against the chalkboard, the coolness of it seeping through my shirt and chilling me to the bone.
“We could have been peacemakers,” I lamented, clenching my fists. “We could have chosen love over hate.”
But we hadn’t. Instead, we’d rejected God’s love and turned on each other like rabid animals.
“I just…I can’t understand,” I confessed to the silent room. “Why are we so destructive? Why did we reject His love?”
There was no answer, only silence. A silence that stretched on and on, a grim testament to our actions. A silence that screamed of the lives lost, the homes destroyed, the peace shattered.
“I just don’t understand,” I whispered, my voice lost in the emptiness. “Why?”
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