Darkness by Dennis Lange

 

……………..Darkness

The lights blink out in this dark world;
…A viral blackness spread
By a contagion devil-hurled,
…With hearts its breeding bed.

The darkness never knows the light;
…The two can’t co-exist.
Night’s never day, day never night;
…Impossible a tryst.

Before light, darkness has no might;
…A distant glimpse – it flees.
It cannot offer any fight,
…Nor beg upon its knees.

The dark compares itself to night,
…And rates itself quite high.
For blackness thinks that it is white
…Since light is never nigh.

The Lord God’s like the brightest day,
…No shadow or a cloud
Moves o’er His just and holy way.
…No darkness is allowed.

So men who love the darkness flee;
…They hide till He appears.
They will His brightness briefly see,
…Then evermore shed tears.

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© Dennis Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2014.

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Strictly Germ-Proof by Arthur Guiterman

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The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup
Were playing in the garden when the Bunny gamboled up;
They looked upon the Creature with a loathing undisguised; –
It wasn’t Disinfected and it wasn’t Sterilized.

They said it was a Microbe and a Hotbed of Disease;
They steamed it in a vapor of a thousand-odd degrees;
They froze it in a freezer that was cold as Banished Hope
And washed it in permanganate with carbonated soap.

In sulphureted hydrogen they steeped its wiggly ears;
They trimmed its frisky whiskers with a pair of hard-boiled shears;
They donned their rubber mittens and they took it by the hand
And ‘lected it a member of the Fumigated Band.

There’s not a Micrococcus in the garden where they play;
They bathe in pure iodoform a dozen times a day;
And each imbibes his rations from a Hygienic Cup –
The Bunny and the Baby and the Prophylactic Pup.

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