Electricity Poem by Colin Ian Jeffery

Civilization hangs perilously
On slender threads of electricity
Providing needs and luxuries
But should it cease
With no means for regeneration
Cities would plunge into darkness
Engines have no spark to run
Food not be transported.

Trains and buses not run
Farmers plough and sow
With no more crops
Feeding starving masses
Evil would lurk in shadows
Preying upon the helpless
Police unable to secure the streets
Mayhem, chaos and madness reign.

Without electric power
Mankind returns to Stone Age
Where brute strength is authority
Darkness feared, food hunted
With spear, bow and arrows
Strong controlling the weak
People dressed in animal skins
Fighting over tribal land and slaves.