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Applause

Do you want it all?!
Every time I lifted a glass,
adored a woman,
swore an oath to the Devil
then prayed to God,
who passed me in the corridor?
Do you want to hear a man
who dreamed so much
he had nothing left at night
to dream?

Then I realized there was no one
in the theater.
No one who had the time
to give a crap for the who, what and why
of me or anyone else.
So I lowered my voice,
dropped my hands,
and thanked everyone not there
for not listening,
and became an instant success!

Published inIndex of all Poems