Night Fall

Late night soft shoe
doing my best Fred Astaire 

Using illuminating starscape
to deftly navigate
the eternal nocturnal stage

Just when I finally find
the elusive celestial groove

I trip and stumble
over that cruel
seemingly innocuous
moonbeam again
all the while pretending
my unscripted tumble
was part of the act

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

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