The Electric Bulb Or Candle Light Poem by H.L. Dowless

Doth the light hanging above my table shine
to illuminate without the flicker of fire bright,
the wasting wax only diddles to a dripping pantomime.
But the supreme test tonight
shall be an honest comparison between the steady illumination
of an electric bulb and the delightful dance of a candle lit sight.


Though the illumination be steady
all 'tis not to any divine likeness,
for the spirits flee forward from heady
brightness of day,
in favor of the dancing candle serenade.


When I am in need of the futures enumeration,
I can never appeal to the steady shine
of an electrical illumination.
Doth I then make my invest of the candles might
in absence of any daunting hesitation.
My inheritance shall then be the blessed performance in advance
of our mortal place
or any looming horrible circumstance
to prevent our secular waste.


Thus shall it so be that the conclusion is final,
that the dance of candlelight holds supreme
to the electric bulb, for in that there exists no denial,
from the power of the candle the bulb canst never redeem
the mortal's desire for celestial power.