Odin Roark Poet Free verse

Actors All

Actors All
            by Odin Roark

To fool
Or be fooled
Innate competition for
Life’s continuance sweepstakes

Real life’s honesty
Knows survival of the fittest
Relies on impression’s armament
One’s tightly woven costume of persuasion 
Ever ready to defend strategy’s patience

Curtains rise

Settings come alive
Footlights’ massage
Spotlights’ invite
As staging presents 
Seduction’s heroes and heroines 

Intermission

The persuaders
And persuaded
Take respite 
As presentation’s set-up and conflict 
Prepares regroupings
Making ready the resolve

Closing curtain

Applause fades
Marquee goes temporarily dark

But just as the next opening
Opts to repeat tried and proven choices
Whether performer
Or audience
The art of persuasion 
Continues to evolve

Gradually 

Acting’s duality of purpose
Will fade-out separation’s proscenium arch 
Opting to invite spectators on stage
Where applause and bows will become one
Where separate identity will cross over
Forging audience and players as one
Making the we/them question moot 

Yes
The Bard was right
Actors all

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