April 26, 2006—Phenomanon
I watched the upturned faces frozen
by the flashes and splashes
Of lightning that
Displayed themselves so
loud across the canvas of
The sky.
I thought it amusing
That something so common
as electricity still
has the power to awe
our finite minds and fill
us simultaneously with
terror and wonder,
and I wondered if perhaps
our prehistoric forebears
were affected the same
way. And if so,
then I suppose
we have really not
advanced ourselves as far
as we would like
to think,
because –
after two hundred years of light
bulbs and switches,
compelled still, we are, to watch
this force we’ve somehow harnessed,
showing off what we,
in human shape,
will never be able to do.
by the flashes and splashes
Of lightning that
Displayed themselves so
loud across the canvas of
The sky.
I thought it amusing
That something so common
as electricity still
has the power to awe
our finite minds and fill
us simultaneously with
terror and wonder,
and I wondered if perhaps
our prehistoric forebears
were affected the same
way. And if so,
then I suppose
we have really not
advanced ourselves as far
as we would like
to think,
because –
after two hundred years of light
bulbs and switches,
compelled still, we are, to watch
this force we’ve somehow harnessed,
showing off what we,
in human shape,
will never be able to do.
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