PLANNED

I felt so helpless
The night the lights went out
Since all my evening planning
Had not allowed
For an interruption
In the power supply demand

And there I sat
In the midst of a sea
Of power crazy devices
All silenced by another greater power
Beyond our control or choices

I could have endured the darkness and the silence
The alternative lifestyle which demanded
Less of my time but more of my brain
Until I looked out of the window
At the light speckled countryside
And wished I could be like that again

But then I remembered in my dimly lit world
That this moment had been planned to be
From the beginning of time
Like every other day in my short history
The good and the bad , the rough and the smooth
Were controlled by the Creator's eye