How many walk among us

that we don’t even know?

The reclusive Picassos

and downtrodden Van Goghs,

The sequestered savants

and homeless heroes,

hiding in plain sight

while thinkin’ they’re zeroes.

The Robin Williams that never was,

The Vaclev Pavel afraid to write,

The Michaelangelo of the street and

Da Vinci of the Night?

How many walk this planet

Pretending they’re not on it?

Please enrich our world

with brush, with song, and sonnet.