The end days were endless. 

 The crow sat on a branch above the creek on the western shore judging us and letting the world know it with his loud and incessant cawing. 

 Everything has been said so it now comes           to           you                  it. 

                                                                      down      how          convey 

                                                                                             

                                                                                              

 They complained about the weather while half a world away bombs rained down. 

 Every time a panhandler asked him for money, Barry vacillated between his inclination to help the less fortunate and his aversion to being considered an easy mark. 

With a single word, their world was wrecked. 

 Circumvent expectation at your own peril.