Shadows

"Attention! Purchase your tickets to see the

amazing actress perform her most challenging role."

Ever since I was born, I hid myself from the

world. I wanted to die in my mother's womb, to avoid the world.

Acting was my only way of hiding in the shadows of my own image.

The world hates me. They love Alexandria, the furious dame.

Or Celeste, the passionate lover. But not me. I hide

from my family, the flashing cameras and all the latest fashions.

I don't bother to look in my magic glass. Every day

I see someone different. Strangers sleep in my bed every night.

My shadows get all the attention from everybody, while

I stay secluded in my little lake of loneliness.

The lake speaks to me. She cries every time

I want to leave. She shows me the world.

My creator, my mother, my life, and my soul.

If I need a place to hide, she embraces me with her arms.

Niesha Brown