Step inside, young one!
Mind your step, young one!
Welcome to this theater, young one,
The show is about to start!
Arrange the lights,
The faces,
The masks,
The places.
The show is going to start, children!
I'm about to tell you a story
That will teach you for life,
I'm about to show you a story
That will probably scar your mind.
This Theater is called Life:
We all act and watch,
We all sit and walk,
We all laugh and cry,
We all tell and hide,
We all die tonight.
This Theater is called Life,
And the only exit is Death
When the show ends,
In the graves we descend.
People are the actors,
People are the audience,
People are the judges,
People are the beginning,
People are the end.
People in masks,
Acting a role, living a lie:
Laughing when Crying and Crying while Laughing
Angered when Calmed and Calmed when Angered
Dead when Alive and Alive when Dead.
People in masks,
Acting the role,
Living the lie,
Living like a mole.
Go with the flow,
Face to make,
Face to stow,
Face to fake,
Face to break.
It's midnight...
The show ends here...
All day long we have acted the play,
Grown older and stupider.
Goodbye goodbye,
We're off to the grave.
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Written March 17th, 2006
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Thanks alot donna, am glad that this eom left impact. It should have anyway, gr8 to know it has succeeded :3
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AT,
I think for me, that is the stanza that sticks in my mind as well. "People in masks,
Acting a role, living a lie:
Laughing when Crying and Crying while Laughing
Angered when Calmed and Calmed when Angered
Dead when Alive and Alive when Dead."
It's like why can't people just be truthful and not hide. Be honest with themselves and others. A geat write, my dear. Keep the ink flowing. Love ans hugs...
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The last stanza eh? Yeah other ppl said the same about that, am glad tht u think the same. :3
Yah, it truly is, but reality is reality after all. Reality is pathetic sometimes. ;3 -
"People in masks,
Acting a role, living a lie:
Laughing when Crying and Crying while Laughing
Angered when Calmed and Calmed when Angered
Dead when Alive and Alive when Dead." and the last stanza really stuck in my mind. This poem is brilliant and so real and true that it's pathetic when you think about it. Nicely done!
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