Actor

When she put on her dress She was an actor in a play Living in someone else’s shoes Speaking someone else’s words Breaking someone else’s heart And pocketing someone else’s name. She could fool even the sharpest person With her pose With her grace With her keen mind. The actor was so talented So gifted and in sync with her character So lost in someone else’s life That she fooled her loved ones She gripped onto her mask She tossed out words that were not her own She took a hammer to their hearts Breaking them as if they were glass She tore them apart like rag dolls Confusing them on where they stood Presenting them with the cold truth. She was gone. No longer herself Suddenly a princess Suddenly homeless Suddenly breath-taking Suddenly hideous. She was gone. Lost in different lives. Floating above the clouds In a world that wasn’t her own. She’d lost everyone. She’d lost herself. She’d truly became her character.