we are the last

Exploring a relationship as the world ends-

i love you.
i know.
i love you too.
this.
all of this.
around us.
i love it.

she looked at me—
eyes like dusk
and ash—
and said,
“you know we’re all going to die.”

i laughed,
not because it was funny,
but because it was true.
"the moment we’re born, we are."
i said,
like it would help.
like words ever helped.

silence.
not the soft kind.
not peace.
the heavy kind.
the kind tha…