Curtain Call

Wait outside.
There is a line.
Broadway hit,
A pantomime.

Back in time,
Our favorite booth,
Dancing wine,
A happy youth.

Now we're getting long in tooth.
Foretold us by the sayer sooth.​
These rose colored memories,
Now dear departed reveries.

Don’t you love me?
Please take me back.
Is this for real?
Or an attack?

I’m sweating, burning.
Can’t you see?
Scene one. Take two
What comes of me?

I love you more
Than the script can tell.
Back whence you came,
To break the spell.

Laura, Laura,
Darling wife,
There’s coatcheck
In the afterlife.

Recite your lines
And I’ll resign
To acting out
The end of mine.

11/22/24
Zone S2E9