the sun did not rise
behind the cloud cover
the land is tinted
with azure highlights
a semblance of cold
to overlay the day
a facade in tentative
shades of tainted light
the traces of sickness
sparkle in muted hues
dreamlike in intensity
nightmarish to behold
another day blurred
incomprehensible from
the ones before it
as if life has been
frozen in mid orbit
floating sickly outside
the warmth giving embrace