Innocents

So many Innocents
enter this Place
of Skin and Ribs
and Faces,

being Taught
Their Task is
to diligently
assemble
a Life of
the Best
Possible Parts,
with Skill and
Character,
polished with
Hard Work
and Rewarded with
Silver Tokens
of Success.

So many Innocents
measure
their Images

in the Early Morning
Mirror
and it seems
to Them
Their Sum
falls Short,

and They’ll need
to scramble
to find more
Parts,
Work harder,
Polish more vigorously.

But what if
that Image
in the Mirror
is just a
False Shadow,
cast by a flickering Film
produced by
a Crew of Fools,
most well-meaning,
some not so much.

What if All of Us
Innocents
have been Taught
the Wrong Tasks,

and

We’re Really
Here as
Beings made of
Light,

meant to
overwhelm those
Flickering Films with
Happy Acts
and Endings
created by Crews
from the Union of
Love and Light and Laughter.

(Photo by Amir Geshani; UnSplash)