First Rain After Radioactive Catastrophe

Only the sounds of various frequencies were ringing inside the heads of billions

The billions who had just faced a catastrophe that they wish should have ended the world we knew

The world that was full of chaos, full of turmoil

Full of wars, full of victims

All of them, all of us, grappling to one rock of supremacy, and one foot on the loose rock of survival

We all hoped for a landslide or some tectonic shift that would swallow everything contained within

Amidst all the tension, a bunch of politically powerful people got up, and told their secretaries to start the “Operation Hellstorm”

Every nation had their versions of “Hellstorm”. No warnings were streamed, no messages for SoS

Engage! The command was screamed!!! I saw many shooting stars, crashing through the sky

The sight just before destruction was so beautiful that everyone forgot to think that it could be the last sight they see with their eyes

And there was a moment of silence… followed by a huge blast everywhere on the planet

Shockwaves running through the doors, windows, cars, trees, people…

Almost everything that is light enough for the shockwave was thrown like a small piece of grass, just about anywhere

Such a random and violent destruction it was!

I’d not repeat the scene of the disaster ever again

There were no reporters, no reports, no bulletins

Although this was not unheard of before, this was something new for everybody, as the old who survived those blasts had died sometime ago

My ears started getting numb as I couldn’t hear the shrieking sounds of humans, especially children anymore.

I wished that I had been washed away in this disaster, such that I would not have to remember tonight in tomorrow’s news, if at all they aired.

I thought just a few days had passed and things would normalise.

Now people are stupid enough to believe that normalize necessarily means better days.

Were they not aware that they have witnessed and suffered a globally catastrophic nuclear attack?

An attack that was so immense that the ones who approved of launching it took their own lives, realizing their greatest sin, killing their own kin.

Do you know the modern monochrome movies? The ones that were portrayed such using lenses and filters?

Now the world was actually looking like it, without any filters or lenses or cameras.

The fumes always surrounded us, the colurs were Yellow, some depressing shades of Greens

And the sky was permanently painted with a million Greys.

After a couple of months, I just got to know that the world has been decimated to what’s leftover of the population.

The fumes have been settled for a long time now, although no one actually wears a watch or any device that keeps time.

None believe in time. There is no use of it. All those survivors, know that they had no time to save themselves.

That’s when the clouds started bursting, leaving everyone afraid and accepting quickly that it is their turn to face their doom.

Somehow the resources were managed by the people but now it’s just another test.

Clouds started colliding, creating an entire atmosphere made out of fear.

I was walking down the street when suddenly, a drop of water fell on my face.

Rain?! It can’t be!

With sheer disbelief, everyone started to stare upwards and watch the rain fall down

Slowly, the rain picked up its pace, and the drops felt like they were crashing down

There was no happiness, no sadness…

No one tried to hide their tears in the rain, no crap of that sort

It continuously rained for seven days, washing the rest of the memory of disaster before

Now the place looked better than before, leaves greener, and the atmosphere, less grey.

But I couldn’t care less for all of that because the past doesn’t fade away

All the haunting memories hold the sway

Greener and more Yellow the Earth might have become, but there was no vibrance of Blues, Reds, Violets

All the containment gates were opened after that rain, but no human could recognize the other group

As if it was a different species

Logically, all the humans had become a common type of indifferent species

Honestly, I don’t know what to comment on this anymore.

The people got healed, cause that is what we do.

The rain kept coming every year like it used to do before the disaster.

The calendars were reset, the time wheel was reconstructed.

Every counting started from zero, once again.

The ‘I’ that was before disaster, after disaster, and after the revamp, are all different.

I’ll be a different person in the future too

But that doesn’t mean that this story ends at all,

Since some will be born to do stupid things one more time that will consume the world in fires like those described in hell.

People will be emboldened once again for sacrilege, murder, destruction… and apocalypse. So it really doesn’t matter…

I’ll keep walking… I’ll keep being…