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I open my eyes in this moment I see electric lights without end What a blessing taken for granted - An oversight that I shall now mend Let us look back in geologic time Just the blink of an eye if you will Back to my grandfather's time is all He had a darkness they had to fill "Electrify the world" they shouted Cast the darkness away from our souls And so clever people who knew how Began to talk of ditches and poles They said we will put a bright lightbulb Each room in each house on the planet So each room in the world got a wire And no one took that chore for granted That wire to that room on the planet Got buried , put on poles, put in flumes Crossed mountains, rivers, lakes and deserts And before long it reached its own room That chore multiplied by the millions And in fifty years each room had wire And each a lightbulb, praise be the Lord, We didn't need the light from the fire And so the world was electrified Right up to this - our moment in time Say thank you to the men and women Who lit my way to create this rhyme 7-17-20 Contest: Just A Moment Sponsor: John Lawless
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