You were the <br />Principal Boy! <br /> <br />I was always only <br />the back end of a horse. <br /> <br />Our love <br />the pantomime that was <br /> <br />...'us.' <br /> <br />'It's behind you! ' <br />the audience screamed. <br /> <br />Our future! <br />And so...it was. <br /> <br />The smell of the crowd... <br />the roar of the grease paint. <br /> <br />Only sweet papers <br />littering the floor <br /> <br />waiting in the silence <br />to be <br /> <br />...swept up.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/oh-no-it-isn-t-oh-yes-it-is-2/
