1Oh, please still write yours! It was our shared experience, deserving of representation.
Thanks to the Hamlet we never saw…
The Light Post
The stage is set
The lights are up
Hamlet is on
Murder, hate, passion, greed
We walk
Away from the crowds
Away from the world of Hamlet
We fall
Into our own universe
It is only us
On a bench we rest
You tell me what you need
Yet I can’t give it to you
Still…
We talk
We relate
We connect
Our problems
We rant and rave
We listen
The light post behind us begins to sway
Funny how it relates to our swaying lives
Which, for the moment, are stitched together
As the weight of our problems
Seem to fall with the light post
We walk away
We find a playground
We wish for the earlier days
Earlier days when life was easy
Now we are no longer alone
The connection is broken
But still hanging in there, by a spider’s thread
The constant moving is similar to our lives
The litter is our problems
The murkiness the connections with the others
Now the river calls for you
The water glistens in the light of the moon
And the light from the stage
You say you long for the cool water over your head
The others are worried
But I know the truth
The stars are out for the night now
The lights of the stage dim
The river still rushes
The others, meaning them
Those who add to those problems
Those whom we will run away from
That year of our graduation…
Once again
We walk away
Better than before
We now know each other
We now know why we are the way we are
We now our truths
I will never take it back
I will never regret
That night was so sad, yet so crucial
And I did end up giving you what you needed…
Whenever times hit hard
I will remember you
I will remember Hamlet
I will remember the night
I will remember the stars
I will remember the playground
I will remember the river
I will remember the spiders’ web connecting us
But most of all
I will remember the light post