That year everything was in reverse. <br />Instead of expelling their foliage, <br />trees retracted, folding in on themselves, <br />as if in retreat from the sun, <br />leaves gradually drew in and were reborn <br />as buds, then as cells of pure energy. <br /> <br />The sun itself grew shy <br />and reticent, expending <br />its radiation profligately, <br />having lost its ability <br />to recharge and renew itself. <br /> <br />Men and women and their progeny <br />gazed up at the night sky <br />and cursed and wailed <br />that fate had at last betrayed them. <br /> <br />Long revered human feelings <br />such as love and empathy <br />vanished, quashed by <br />fear and uncertainty <br />and from all quarters of the earth <br />a creeping wall of silence <br />was closing in.<br /><br />Sonny Rainshine<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fragment-from-a-history-of-space-station-earth/
