Earth’s human children must remember something: you reflect one another, but you are not reflections only. Within, you each have a core, a crust, a mantel-separate from the light you mirror. Be in darkness sometimes, light in others. Retreat from performance so you may be luminous again. Rest your eyes in darkness, a luxurious rarity… 

Forget what it is to be naked. Then, and only then, remove your clothes. Lay out under me when I am full. Feel my glow sing on the surface of the skin you wear now, for a time–then listen longer, feel deeper…