Audience of One

CARRY ON TUESDAY
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This week we have to use the famous words from Shakespeare...
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players"



AUDIENCE OF ONE

If all the world's a stage

With an audience of One,

Is He sitting there in judgement

From the time the play's begun?

Is He holding his auditions

And declaring who will act

And is He doling-out the roles,

On a stage which is tight-packed?

And are we merely players

Like puppets hung on strings,

And is He in charge of properties,

The crowns, the shining wings?

Since He has sprinkled attributes

Among the fawning players,

And sorted men and women

Into variegated layers

With successes at the very top,

The mediocre in between

And the failures at the bottom,

Not allowed upon the scene,

Achieving even a walk-on part

Is like crying for the moon,

Even if we act quite well

And can even hold a tune!

And if the 'audience' likes the play

Will there be a standing ovation?

Will He thunder-clap his god-like hands

In a heavenly proclomation?

It's all too hard for me, my friends,

I feel much more at home

With those very human, squabbling, lying,

Gods of ancient Rome.

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BALLERINA!

A ballerina in the footlights, with tutu pinkly flared!

She has just made her entrance! She is a little scared.

A shadow is her scenery, painted on pristine white,

As she stands there, a little breathless, blinking in the light.

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