Life and Cinema
Don’t struggle so much
against the ropes that bind you.
The knots will be untied,
but not before the performance
has ended,
and you have played your role,
the prisoner in the background,
abused in semi-darkness,
a tinge of the forbidden and desired
in this fantasy of magicians
and fairy godmothers.
The heroes will pass by
heading towards the next scene
while you dutifully practice
well rehearsed moans and screams.