a wonderful, intense/ɪn'tɛns/ drama
the play as revelation/'rɛvə'leʃən/
By Henry H. Walker
when the two leads took their bows/baʊ/,
I stood up to applaud them,
with tears in my eyes
and awe/ɔ/ in my soul
at what they and their comrades/'kɔmrid/
wrought/rɔt/ upon the stage tonight,
at the end of a long week,
with all of us within the recursive/rɪ'kɝsɪv/ nightmare/'naɪt'mɛr/
our current politics/'pɑlətɪks/ visit upon us,
here was a profound play pulled off,
created by high schoolers
just coming full into their power,
they call up a slice of the truth of our past
we’d rather not remember,
when minds felt surer/ʃʊr/ the smaller they got,
the more moral/'mɔrəl/ when they rushed to judge,
St. Peter was counting and the Pharisees/ˈfærɪsi/ were in charge,
the letter of old rules trumps what love demands/dɪ'mænd/ of us,
one character, so lost in her own desires,
that all others became but means to an end,
an end that only serves her,
a director who knows the stage as revelation,
revelation of thought, of feeling,
of students coming into their power,
I am pulled into the students’ world,
and I am called to appreciate whenever, however,
the greatness of spirit/'spɪrɪt/ can find the way to manifest/'mænɪfɛst/,
for a time.
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