I Am The Earth...Goodbye

This may be a bit dark so I guess trigger warning? Mention of gun violence and wounds.

I was searching writing prompts to give myself a challenge and found this one online:

"This is the way the world ends / This is the way the world ends / This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper," concludes T. S. Eliot's 1925 poem "The Hollow Men," described in his obituary in the New York Times as "probably the most quoted lines of any 20th-century poet writing in English." When considering the ending of something enormously consequential, the expectation might be that the external drama of that conclusion match one's internal turmoil, however the sorrow of Eliot's sentiment comes through in the idea of ending not with something explosive and abrupt, but with something much smaller, anticlimactic, and quiet. Write a short story that revolves around an ending of some sort-whether it be the world, a war, or a relationship-and include some portion of these last four lines of Eliot's poem.