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If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, then who is responsible for the casting? We've all got our entrances and exits, but it seems like all these lousy players that come into my play just use their exits. Without so much as a goodbye, they're gone in nothing more than a blackout—leaving us to try and make what is happening on stage work. All the world’s a stage, and all the scripts are merely conditions to which the players have to improvise. When one player leaves the realm, not always does another enter. Not always is the set complete, leaving no window for more conditions. Not always is there applause at the end of an act. I bow not for those who do not participate. A thrown rose does not make up for the loss on this stage.

When you told me you were dying, I cried.
I lay in your arms and I let my feelings out in tears.
You asked me to stop crying,
but you never wiped away my sorrows that were running down my face.
Even though you lied to me,
broke my heart, and never looked back,
I still feel that misery on my cheek every time I hear your story in someone else’s words.
It hurts to remember what they’re going through.
Of all the things I have,
with all the strength I had,
I am still no bad ass.
And when you told me you were dying, I cried.