It's a stranger
But a Mother all the same
If ever I could feel it
Touch it
Taste it
I would.
But loss
Loss is power
A power
A power all on its own
Something stronger than anything I've ever known
I don't know what to do.
With power I am strong.
With loss...I am wrong.
The stage is where I feel power
Where I feel loss
It is where I know my heart is beating
Every hour
Every minute
Every day
Hours upon hours I have poured
I have sweated
I have cried into that theatre
Into my home
And I won't give up.
It is threatened by power
It is threatened by loss
They plague its scaffolding
They scratch away at its doors
The ones who teach
They take away
And the ones who learn
Lose many days
For my home is threatened by restructure
By reconstruction
It may not seem much to an audience of those who have never seen
But to those whom have seen everything happen within
Those whom have made those happenings happen
It is everything.
It is a lesson...
It is power unfeeling and power renewed:
It is loss taken and then given.
It is every emotion rolled into one
It is every lesson taught
The theatre we lose
That home is more than a building
It is our teacher
Our friend.
Our parent.
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