Night Fall

Late night soft shoe
doing my best Fred Astaire

Using the stars to navigate
the eternal nocturnal stage

Just when I finally find
the elusive celestial groove
I trip over that moonbeam again
all the while pretending
my stumble was part of the act

Fortunately for me
this was a scene 
played out
in the middle of nowhere

So only the darkness bore witness
to yet another embarrassment  
in my modest life
of perpetual awkwardness