A few short moments
’til the curtain comes down
to close the show on all our games.
All means none once the lights go down,
everything we’ve been is over.
Doesn’t matter who you played,
or how much for your part you were paid;
strictly to the script you stayed,
but now the show is over.
The audience is quick to go
back to their lives and homes
and we rehearse another show;
over and over again.
We play at being actors
and we play at being more,
all the roles are nothing
when they finally lock the door.
I’m never the actor,
cast me as myself.
I’ll learn the lines
and play the part
regardless of the act itself.
HG 1995-2000
