Open curtains
Eager audiences
I play the lead
In a show I don't know I'm in.

And so I watch others
Talk to others
Love others, even
But I don't play my role.

The audience grows restless.
When does the show start, 
The action,
The drama,
The life?
They murmur quietly to themselves,
Swarms of bees
Getting up,
Leaving the stage I don't know I'm on.

I left too,
Not long ago.
Only a shell that remains
To play the parts
I didn't want,
To live the life
I didn't lead.

And nobody watches,
Nobody notices,
As the screen fades to black.