Altered

The world changed today

Sunlight casts orange glow

Birds sing subtle lyrics from afar

Wind is absent from its post

Leaves refuse to sway or rustle

The drone of car tires carries

Nothing in nature world moves

Time has frozen in the place

What is known as here

Altered not changed things shift

My views are filtered by unseen light

My ears empty void of morning

As I look about my world I question

Is this dream, a passing phase?

Where did my daily habit go?

Slowly chickadees return

They give back a piece of once normal.