* Night Slave Light

see solitary scholar by night light late burning lamp shadow cast electricity a limitless constant amp knowledge vast in sifted class kind we store studious study in focused lengthening labour bore once by time degrees ratio of ever fading light candle brighter danced greeting encroaching night once as night shadows waxed on triumphantly damning daily tasks tossed aside by necessity day receding roars hot early night heat follows suit wage slave workers tired wilt energy retort is mute reverberation reverie review life's overtime ungodly hours ribbon rhapsodical rhetoric regurgitated deregulated sours daily dusk ending labour forever gone night burns ever on and on Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light) Copyright © Terence George Craddock