Dawn

5:20
Still dark, or should I say it's already light? The day has broken. Yet the sun is still behind the beige colored building that's soaring up in the east sky. 25 degrees Celsius. The air is pregnant with a heat ahead of us. The dog days are coming back.
Today's paper reports a possible merger of two giant companies, Hitachi and Mitsubishi Heavy Industry. That's shocking. But the time might have come at last. That's, of course, something inevitable for the Japanese manufacturing industries to survive the cruel international competition in the never-ceasing adverse wind. High yen, earthquake-tsunami disaster, nuclear accident, power shortage, aging society, ever increasing national debt and stupid government... Given all that, we might be able to say that the players have been doing well in spite of the ineffective and incompetent director and nasty ground conditions. The merger is one of those efforts on the side of the players. They have been playing hard for the team, Japan. But no longer. They have to think about themselves for their own sake, for sure, willing to play the game in foreign teams. You know, less for the domestic league.
Less jobs, low payment, widening gap between rich and poor. The fate awaiting us.
We seem to be in the dark, in all aspects. But we can't tell if the darkness is of a dawn or a twilight. It's all up to us. Believe it as a dawn. Then the day breaks... whether it be hot and humid or cool and breezy.