The Play

I feel like I'm an actor in a play

Playing different role

As a son

Brother

Friend

But no matter how much I try to play my role perfectly

I keep making mistake

I can't seem to be able to follow the script given to me

And I'm left standing alone on the stage

With them

The audience watching

Silently judging every action I make

I don't like acting in this play

But they keep demanding more from me

Keep giving me more roles to play

And I'm tired of following this stupid script

I wish I could just walk away from this stage

But I can't

They won't let me go

So I'm stuck here

On this stage

Forced to act in this godforsaken play

That never seems to end

I wonder who wrote this stupid play

And why they are forcing me to play roles I never asked for

Why me of all people

Why? 

I don't like the roles they force me to play

They feel strange and foreign to me

They are unnatural in every way

But still

I have to play them

Alone I stand

On a wide-open stage

Forced to act as characters that aren't me

I've been stuck in this play for as long as I can remember

It was fun at first

I played every role

To the best of my ability

And that was enough 

But over time

The audience I played for became displeased with the performance

They started demanding more from me

Giving me more roles

Roles that didn't quite fit

But they didn't care

All that mattered to them was my performance

They say the show must go on

But this show has been going on for far too long

When will it reach its climax

And let me be

I'm tired of acting in this wretched

I just want it all to end

I want to set this stage on fire

And watch as the curtains turn to ash

So that I can finally be free from all the roles I'm forced to play

And play the role one true role I was born to play

Whatever that may be