A Different Sunshine

A winter sun smiles from the blue sky. The earth seems to revel in the friendly, albeit cold light. But these amiable sun rays differ from the daylight of past years and yesterdays, laments a poet. They might beam and emit a similar radiance yet proffer a different cadence; it is not the same luminosity, not the same experience. For this friendly light hides lurking perils, a raging war, at our own door as authorities convulse and soldier and have faltered in the present fight against a microscopic monster that sickens and destroys lives and has radically altered the human plight.