How can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
~ Bee Gees

He said, "I have to find myself." She said,
"Fine, I’ll help you pack." – "I like that you love
me BUT" – "Fine, I take it back." – Not a shred
of feelings left except to rise above:
A rewrite of the too trite one-act play,
father, mother, their daughter’s drama coach,
prefers the jilted ingenue portray.
Screen Test: Her Heartbreak Triumph, first approach.
Tragedy's the forte of seasoned actors,
the romantic’s hardest role misassigned
of charisma, fickle-casting factors:
molds character; the method is unkind.

A script, a stretch, a pinnacle afar:
They pray, daren’t insist: Oscar for a Star!



copyright © Helga Ross 2004