The Stage
I need to make my own decisions,
Choose the path I walk.
Do what I must,
Ignore the critic's talk.

Someone had decided,
They know what's best for me.
Do my best to listen,
But sometimes I disagree.

  Trapped in the charade,
  Just a playwright's pawn.
  Blood on the page,
  All the world's a stage.

  I'm here to play my role;
  And I'm sticking to the script.
  In the first half I'm the champ;
  But by the end my title's stripped.

Might not win an oscar;
Sell the screenrights for my play.
But when the show is over,
It won't matter anyway.