Video from my original spoken word performance art piece written and performed for “Planet Queer: Haunted Tarot “. Taking some visual inspiration from the recent solar eclipse and contemporary issues at play in our modern world, Moonlight/Sunlight highlights the particular aspects of the Moon and Sun cards of the tarot deck.
Here’s the text:
Are you scared? Are you frightened?
Are you terrified?
In these troubled times – Uncertainty abounds
In the darkness that surrounds us in the moonlight
Nothing’s quite predictable
Everything so unreliable in the moonlight.
Outside, inside, there’s no where to hide
For fear is everywhere in the moonlight.
When the shadows stretch over the world
Does a horror fall over your heart?
Does madness possess your mind?
In the moonlight
You feel helpless like a child
Your wonder wandering wild
Stirring the imaginations mysterious visions fill your head
Unraveling the manifestations of your unyielding dread
In the moonlight
So many illusions growing
The confusion of not knowing
What is real? What is fake? What is right? What is wrong?
Isolation and desolation
Loneliness and longing
Can you survive your crazy thoughts and all its fright
In the moonlight?
Do you feel the shivers down your spine
The chill from the ever closer approach of death
Waiting for the moment to deliver your final breath
Fear! Fear! Fear!
Fight or freeze or flight
In the moonlight
Oh, but don’t you see
That her soft and seductive silver gleams
Are here to soothe your worried dreams
There’s no rejection
Beneath her gentle reflection
Compassion and grace
Follow the phases of the shadows on her face
Anything is possible in the darkness of the unknown
There resides vast potential – including your own
In the moonlight
So take the time to ease your mind
As she glides across the sky
And dream away your wildest dreams
All throughout the night
In the moonlight
Until the dawn’s warm light
Reaches over the horizon
Piercing through the dark
There are too many things I worry about
But now my cold heart thaws out
In the sunlight
And these moments bring the urgency of life
Calling out to me – “set down your strife
And lift your head to the sky!
Oh! and the tears that you cry
Can be for both misery and joy – enjoy!
In the sunlight”
We have the invitation to play
Come, enjoy the rebeginning of a new day
I want to bask in the radiant glow
Warm rays to soothe the pains I know
In the sunlight
So many moments given to my grief
Balance it out for our days are so brief
I am but a tiny pebble on a wide beach of sand
In the ocean of time
So let me lay here and feel divine Apollo’s embrace
Warm fingertips of the golden god caressing my face
In the sunlight
I am humbly but a single leaf upon the tree of life
Learning to stretch up into the heights
Beyond my mere humanity
I want to feel the sparkle of divinity
All the majesty of creation and the gift of elation
I wish to feel the intensity of living life so full like a fool
In the sunlight
I want to feel happiness and laughter in the sunlight!
I want to celebrate and revel in the sunlight!
I want to dance with my friends in the sunlight!
As silly as it seems I want to shine rainbows everywhere
In your eyes and in your hair in the sunlight!
Sharing in the beautiful magnificent luminous sunlight!
I want to feel it in my heart – that’s where it starts…
For I am rising like the sun…
that is here to shine for everyone
I am burning with the beauty of our love
I am lifting off the earth
I am lighter now than at my birth
I am moving by the magic of our love
I am flying, I am soaring
And there’s no use in ignoring
This was gifted from the glory of our love
In the sunlight!
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