Unexpected beauty

I don't normally write poems but this was for a class I had. I figured I should share it.

Unexpected beauty

 

Switch on

Switch off, switch on

Switch off, switch on, and switch off

A story can be told and yes it is overlooked underappreciated invisible and yet still beautiful

Us, we are

Blind, weak, lost. Disoriented

                        From the flick of a finger

                                    a stumbling arm comes

And finds a savior

                                    Suddenly,

Light… and now

            We, See

We see and become

strong,

 and are found. Focused

Gone now is the sightless hell, the missing light reestablished

A Woods invented this, this ability to control light,

 Now you known the name that made it, this beautiful everyday thing

Today Every morning, night and electronic, burning midnight candle

Has a switch

 

 this beautiful thing brings to us what we crave more than love, attention, light or even life it self

It brings us control,

From it we gain power of a city and the art of it too

Patterns from random windows envelope our city, with the skill of a simple light switch we brought an artful life

           It can also tell A STORY

Yes a story… how you ask?

Well, they say

Light switch on no light, you walk into…a place and flick a broken switch me. A layer of dust covers my once golden, paint

intricate designs cover me, I wait to be polished and uncovered.

The once prestige and usefulness of myself is gone

 and now I deteriorate away, I am the life and soul of the room, told in only 3 centimeter by 4 rectangle square. I live in a old hotel, now an abandoned home, of mice.

 

Another switch another life

 switch off, ssh

Sticky prints of syrup, sweets and other candy

I stand short, so little hands can reach me, I am colored yellow green and blue, and my jacket is changed every so often, from soft colors, to fishes then trains and later gray. I am the changing light switch who grows with the sleeping children

 

Light Switches are

They are Power

Control

Art

A story

And a dramatic ending

Switch off

 

Author's Note

here's something to go with the poem
http://www.switchhits.com/switchplates-funky-ceramic-light-switch-plates-covers-s.html
I tend to overcomplicate everything just tell if I've done it here thanks and happy reading!