music and books

Slip headphones over your ears Hit play and wait It washes over you like water Shuts out the noise Takes you to a different place Where the music takes on colour And everything else disappears as your eyes slide shut You hum along as it soothes you Carrying all your worries away Thoughts are nonexistent Just the sounds that fill your head You sit in your corner Oblivious to the world Not seeing the people passing by Not hearing anything else Just listening to the sounds running through your head You hum once more As you open the worn cover Flip a page and prop it up on your knees Still humming as your eyes fly across the page Absorbing everything you see Images dance through your head As you imagine every character and every scene And only you will know what they look like The little habits they have And all of a sudden it comes to an end The music stops The story is at its end You smile as you get up The story still fresh in your head And the music still playing in your ears

the world is a stage

everyone's an actor 

cause the whole world is a stage. 

however small, we all have parts 

in life's unending play. 

The producer lost the script

the directors MIA

you missed the first rehersal 

for the opening ballet 

You stumble and you fumble 

cause you never learned your songs 

and your face turns cherry red 

cause you got the notes all wrong 

And the other actors chortle 

some may tell you its okay 

"I was clumsy too, 

when i was young", they wisely say.

So now you vow to write scenes 

and rehearse till you turn blue

but when you look up from your writing 

they've moved on to something new 

So you race to catch the others 

cause you know your far behind 

and you've missed your chance to show them 

how much you truely shine 

So you snap your pencil in half 

and adopt a sadly glow 

you know you can't prepare your sceans 

cause it's now an improv show.