LIGHTS!

LIGHTS!

lights!, lights!,

we are
   immersed in darkness
cannot find our
our way about
the stage

see if we are
    in a tragedy or
a history play

in a love scene
or a whole act
of battle

though we appear to
be falling down everywhere
slipping in what
feels like
      smells like
blood

prudence
tells us it could well
be the latter

or it’s all just
comic, absurd, existential, meta

whole world as stage
       and we imprisoned
in a
brutal metaphor

lights!

          lights!