Saturday, December 20, 2025

The Stage is Set

The stage is set, my phone is off;

The play has yet to start.

The audience is filing in,

Preparing to depart

 

From reality for just a while,

An hour and a half

And hopefully, they’ll be rewarded

With a smile or laugh

 

Or possibly with sadness

Or nostalgia or with rage.

No matter which – it’s all contained

In lines upon the stage.

 

Forgotten are the problems

That they’ve briefly left behind,

Yet when the show is over,

Back at home that’s what they’ll find.

 

Yet in this brief reprieve they get to

Focus on the show

And the struggles of the actors,

Far from those that they might know.

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