For One Moment
For One Moment
An aging actress
Standing on the stage
Her legs are withered and weak
Her looks have disappeared with age
She has played a thousand roles
Harlot, mother, daughter and nun
She played them all
She became them all
Now, she recites lines from her favorite play
But there is no applause
There are no fans in the empty room
She stands alone
Unloved and unremembered
One last line
The curtain will fall on her performance
She has become just a footnote
Someone just mentioned theatre classes
If even then
But standing on a stage in an empty theatre
For that moment she is a star
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