signs fall

In the flow of human time

Came a  time without the sun

A dark age, and the rage of ignorance

Fell like the darkness.

Man, left  in the power of his worst,

Fed the life-dimming thirst for hatred.

As their crops fell fallow

And human reach retreated from

The edge of greater understanding,

Like a flower that inhales its scent,

Time went backwards.

And  to now, in an age that thrust

Mankind to a choice of abundance or slaughter

The measure of human greatness in the balance

We can do either…exceedingly live, or

Follow well worn paths to greed and death.

Signs fall from the skies, a feather

Comes into the casual ambit of my eyes

And a meaning extends from the delicate blend

Of circumstance and inner sight, free-fall flight

Of a air light white feather…

Signs fall from the skies, the sun disappears

And will it be for moments or years that we recall

The endless nights, and the fright-filled wait

For the gates of the near heavens to admit

A right we overlook each day, the miracle

That we need to stay on this fragile blue craft

And will we see that it is simplicity of We

That need the sun, the air, the sweet water

And… forgiveness

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The sun dimming in December 2012  or in 2014  is a hoax-- but the ideas spread virally around the Internet. This was the inspiration here, a sobering look at the science of this day-- magnificent sun spots and enormous solar flares. Our connection to the Sun is the essential for human life on Earth, and hoaxes can focus on the reality, solar activity is unpredictable and uncertain except that we need it, and we are all in that same situation - we need the warmth of the sun.