The electrician, the plumber, the computer consultant.
They appear, these dears, and I am exultant.
The energies they work with, the connections they make,
may as well be accomplished by the wave of a wand.
Without them I'd surely be woebegone-
in the dark, faucets dripping, with
a computer that keeps crashing or tripping.

Call them by trade names if you must.
What they do is, to me, like…faerie dust-
barely seen, hardly believable. Why,
life without them would be inconceivable.

Magicians may reside in mysterious realms,
cast a spell by illusion, and do it quite well.
Mine live in my world, they tinker and turn,
and do mysterious things I wish I could learn.
For if ever there was magic that I saw,
it was in the work that they did,
and I am in awe.