BLACK ON BLACK

There are shadows everywhere.

What we need is more light.

So don’t dress in black

and be the one

moving the props

about the stage unseen

before the play begins

and during intermission,

so some other actor

gets to take center stage

while you go unnoticed.

Do not blend

into the background,

fade into black

and call that your time

on stage. Don’t.

Own the stage

with your own soliloquies.

Leave audiences

illuminated with your illumination

and wanting more,

from you,

but most of all

from themselves.