Grey Days

"What if one day the stars were gone? The trees were gone. The grass was gone beneath your feet. What if the world suddenly stopped looking like what you were used to? You got up in the morning, you didn't think much of the thick greyness outside. Just another misty morning. Then you stepped outside. But it wasn't mist. This was just what the air was like now. Grey, thick. The trees you usually walk past on your way to work have turned to dust. There's no colour. No smiles on people's faces. No one outside playing or drinking coffee. What if sunshine never came back? What if the world became like living in a basement? What if everything as you know it was gone one day? And you hadn't done anything to stop it? "