The Man On The Hill.
The man on the hill
Stood up with a torch in his hands
Holding it steady, he shone it at the Moon
He said that if he turned it off
The Moon would be in shadow
And no one would see it.
I didn’t believe him
Until he turned his torch off
Although he said his batteries had run down
Nevertheless, the Moon was gone
Until someone else shined a torch
With longer-lasting batteries than this one.
© GF Willmetts 2017