The curtains fall and darkness overwhelms me.
Beyond this veil I feel an ascending palpitation.
I take a step forward only to feel myself halt-
If I take another, I hesitate, I can’t fall back.
Giants of shadows linger near me, checked hostility.
I feel my chest tightening, my head soaked in perspiration,
The curtains rise and I, blinded by a brilliant bolt,
Take an uncertain step, my feet become slack.
“Alas”, she crys, “What I have done…”
I stand transfixed, my lips trembling unsure,
“Oh my love, forgive me”, she coaxes, ” You are my only one.”
The room holds its breath, an unearthly silence ensues.
For I her lover and she mine worldly tether, faced a rubicon,
“Oh my love why thus have you been unfaithful,” voice steady and sure,
In agony I verbalised, for my one lover, I lost to another…
“Was I not enough…” I choke, my demeanor hurt and abused.
The curtain falls once again amidst adulation,
I close my eyes to calm my restless soul.
And once again relive that moment, damnation,
When in realisation, my heart grew dark and cold.
I turn to fine her and her paramour, locked in embrace-
A smile on her lips and a grin on his face.
I call out to the heavens appalled at the grin avarice-
And in silent tones I spoke,”May damnation be your fate.”
And once again as the curtains rose, suspense,
The damned two eloped, the story now disarrayed.
What once was to end in “Happily ever after.”
Now debased to ” The unforetold tragedy of…”
And as I stood there dumb, forgetting my role of pretense,
I let myself be swayed by the moment, and loudly orate,
” My love has thus been spent and I, her fickle love forfeit.”
In the act of letting her go I found a sense of freedom,
For I had lost all hope in love as a medium.
And as I took one last look and let her memory burn down-
I smiled and walked away, “For the show must go on.”
Beyond this veil I feel an ascending palpitation.
I take a step forward only to feel myself halt-
If I take another, I hesitate, I can’t fall back.
Giants of shadows linger near me, checked hostility.
I feel my chest tightening, my head soaked in perspiration,
The curtains rise and I, blinded by a brilliant bolt,
Take an uncertain step, my feet become slack.
“Alas”, she crys, “What I have done…”
I stand transfixed, my lips trembling unsure,
“Oh my love, forgive me”, she coaxes, ” You are my only one.”
The room holds its breath, an unearthly silence ensues.
For I her lover and she mine worldly tether, faced a rubicon,
“Oh my love why thus have you been unfaithful,” voice steady and sure,
In agony I verbalised, for my one lover, I lost to another…
“Was I not enough…” I choke, my demeanor hurt and abused.
The curtain falls once again amidst adulation,
I close my eyes to calm my restless soul.
And once again relive that moment, damnation,
When in realisation, my heart grew dark and cold.
I turn to fine her and her paramour, locked in embrace-
A smile on her lips and a grin on his face.
I call out to the heavens appalled at the grin avarice-
And in silent tones I spoke,”May damnation be your fate.”
And once again as the curtains rose, suspense,
The damned two eloped, the story now disarrayed.
What once was to end in “Happily ever after.”
Now debased to ” The unforetold tragedy of…”
And as I stood there dumb, forgetting my role of pretense,
I let myself be swayed by the moment, and loudly orate,
” My love has thus been spent and I, her fickle love forfeit.”
In the act of letting her go I found a sense of freedom,
For I had lost all hope in love as a medium.
And as I took one last look and let her memory burn down-
I smiled and walked away, “For the show must go on.”
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