I drift forever with the current,
Down these long canals they've made.
Tame, yet wild, I run elusive,
Multitasking to your aid.
Before I came, the world was darker,
Colder, sometimes – rougher, true.
But though I might make living easy,
I'm good at killing people too.

(In reply to Re Previous Comments (spoiler?) by Vernon Lewis)

Maybe it's not electricity, but electrons.  It still would fit in the larger sense of electricty.  There might be a problem with the "Before I came" part, but in either case I think the notion is that it means "before it was discovered how to put me to effective use"

$.02

Posted by Bob Smith on 2005-12-21 08:01:02