Artist That You Are

Sometimes
the Script
for the Character
You chose to
play,
this time around,

calls for You –
I mean
Your Character –
to take on
burdens
that require
You to show us
what suffering
feels like,
and,

Artist that
You are,

You will convince
us with Your
Art,
and

We will be
grateful
for a scene
to hone the
craft of Our
own acting
to improvise
how Love is
played.

Because,
in the Third
Act,
it’s Our turn
to inhabit a
suffering scene,
and

Your turn to
stage a
redemption,
and

so it goes,
as we rejoice
to recall,
in divine
relief,

that it’s
all about
the Art.

(Photo by Myznik Egor; UnSplash)