Candle Power

Light a candle, may it do you good

a solitary light with darkness all around.

But could you rally others to your cause

a billion candles light would set the world aglow.

If others would but listen to your pleas

and aid you in your arguments.

Dictatorship still happens in the world

religion with its ancient reasoning

long outmoded, set in its ways,

unable to reform to modern days,

preaching of the path to righteousness.

Still sets the laws that govern us.

Ben Grader 2014