Dark

We woke in darkness, not because The dawn had not arrived But rather due to power, of which We had been deprived. An underground transformer, We were told, at our hotel, Went on the fritz and when it Could be fixed, they couldn’t tell. Our flight was in the morning, so We packed and dressed to leave, A challenge in a pitch-black room, Which you could well believe. We skipped the shower and no make-up I could thus apply, And so I looked as bad As I could look if I did try. Although, within the scheme of things That can go wrong each day, This glitch, while quite annoying’s Hardly reason to inveigh.