Two Faces Of The Theater (Shakespeare)

from INSPO w/ Greg Walker by JClazzified

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lyrics

I would not “compare thee to a summer’s day”
Since all the season’s seep through:
Romance and war,
Fantasy and sobering reality
Swords and flowers,
Kings and paupers.
If I could only pick one author
To fill up my library with
I think I would pick Shakespeare.
A window into his time,
But also into The Moor’s,
Antony and Cleopatra’s,
Henry the Fifth’s,
And all the made up characters
He peopled his powerful plays with.
He epitomized the two faces
Of the theater—
Comedy and Drama—so well,
Often in one play
Or even one sonnet.
He was as dextrous with his pen
As Romeo’s tongue or
Tybalt’s fateful blade,
As deft as Lady Machbeth’s scheming
Or Puck’s poetry.
Our language is littered
With his phrases,
His themes are of biblical proportions
In our society.
If I had only his writing to recount
I could understand the gamut
Of human nature and experience:
Jealousy and ambition,
Class struggle and holy war,
Young love and old woes.
His canon is so impressive,
Scholars believe it couldn’t have been
Just one man.
But in each play, in each poem,
There is such a signature stamp,
It must be.
I have some plays yet to read
But years in which to read them.
And years in which to write,
Try my hand at mankind’s
Wonderful and terrible capability.
And my own.