Touching – Visible – Stage

Pia, to quote another, “I could kiss you” for giving me these words today! Thank you so much!!

An Actor’s Truth

It was a touching scene on the stage
visible signs of remorse
shared by body language and tears
and we cried with them
and afterward, he mentioned

they were merely actors
strutting their skills at mimicry

and to a point they were, merely,

but their tears came from real places,
though other than that portrayed

and the body language,
a flash from another past,

for actors on stage have no

artificial tears added between cuts

and their body language
oft comes unplanned
as they reach back in time
and real emotions threaten to
pull them back into their own remorse

and therein lies their true skill:

they fight and win

the battle to have their heads remain in the present
as their hearts and bodies rush to the past.

Marcia McLees Bogaert
(MeeAugraphie)

04/16/08