* Night Slave Light Poem by Terence George Craddock

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)
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