Showing posts with label shakespeare plays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shakespeare plays. Show all posts

Sunday, March 6, 2011

a tree grows


a tree grows in Brooklyn
 not for me, my  friend

my days have reached a number
marked nearer than near the end
yet, I have played king
too a pauper, The
Bard's Othello
recited Yorick's cold bitter end

and alas, a tree grows in Brooklyn
but not for me, my friend

this heart has
held the moment, the pause
applause, ovations that knew
not end
but now, all lighting has gone dark
the castle walls collapsed
within

and still a single tree does grow in Brooklyn
for someone, not me dear friend

as the sits have
long been empty, curtain
lies as worn out thread, and no
  more for me parts are offered, but in the one last
 undertaking - of
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead


bkmackenzie
copyrighted 2011