Ovation

You don’t need
anything.

Nothing.

You are Everything
You need
to Be.

You have been
since before
there was a
Before,

and You will Be
long after
The Hereafter.

Yet,
every single day,
new Lists of
What You Need
show up,
uninvited,

along with
warnings
about failure to

Do Be Do Be Do.

Your Question
should really be –
since You
asked to Play
this Game
exactly as You –

did You arrive here
in need of
repair,
damaged in delivery,

or is this the
Role of a
Lifetime,
from curtain
to curtain?

Every act a
character study
in the alchemy
of compassion,

an invitation to
transform
scene and prop
and dialogue

into grace
that belies
the need
for anything

but amazement
at the
standing ovation
of Love.

(Photo by Guillermo Latorre; UnSplash)