The thrill of being at Lincoln center
On a balmy summer night
To catch a new opera
Octavia L Butler’s Parable of the Sower
The thrill of live music
Gorgeously sung and played
The power of a carefully positioned light
The power of bodies in space
The power of storytelling
The power of a narrator who can speak to the audience and comment on the action within and outside the literal and figurative walls
And bring the play
Written thirty years ago and set next year
To the immediacy of today
Post apocalyptic America
And still we sing.