Role to play

Role to play

You have a role to play if you so long.

Puppets are the actors,

Frozen white and strong;

In silence

Audience,

Go to alter the authors.

Don’t sit and see Othello and Meursault

Kill Desdemona and the Arab,

Reason is out of dais you can’t even grab;

Don’t let the Montague and the Capulet,

In the confused and helpless hamlet,

Fight for nonsense; Audience!

Lovers, innocents kill and strangle to death,

Like you they too need their space and their breath,

You have watched so far with popcorn and coke

Bickering and simmering your bubbles did choke.

Hey audience! Are you there? Heard the poet screech?

‘Up! Up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you'll grow double:
Up! Up! my Friend and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble!’

Off your seat-belts now and on to the stage!

Written word is here, out and off the page

Save the couples now and all those timid players

Who kill and breed killers with victimized rage!

…

The curtain falls; the audience sees

They are on the stage with countless layers

Actors with audience melting at ease

Released right inside their same old cage!

Go to alter the authors.

Audience,

In silence

Frozen white and strong;

Puppets are the actors,

You have a role to play if you so long.