At The Death of an Actor.

An actor lives only once in this world of ours
But characters live and die forever more.
How many times will Hamlet die
Throughout eternity?

With the passing of an actor
Entire worlds go with him,
He takes Hamlet,
Romeo,
And Caesar, too.

When she breathes her last,
Ophelia ceases to be.
Ismene, Medea, Blanche DuBois and
Sally Bowles die, too.

Entire Civilizations have fallen
With the loss of each cast—
Only to be revived once more
By another actor
Another cast,
At another time.

Another world is created—
Not quite the same as the last, but
It is familiar, still.
Once again Othello lives
To kill his Desdemona.
Juliet takes her life once more
When she sees her Romeo dead—
Life becomes a Cabaret again,
And The Iceman (Continues to) Cometh.
We patiently Wait for Godot,
While we hear A Little Night Music.

We laugh again,
We cry again,
We remember tragedy
We remember joy.

Until at last
Our hearts break once more.

Another actor dies--
Taking with him creation--
Taking with her creation.

The worlds he made
The worlds she made.
The lives she created
The lives he created
Will
Now
Sleep
Eternally
In peace.

I Know A Place (Where The Wild Things Are)

The final song from Where The Wild Things Are. Written in 2001.


I Know A Place…
Lyrics by: Melissa C. G. Alvarez

I know a place
Through the night, across the rolling sea,
Over distant lands,
Beyond the forests of green,

I know a place
Real far away,
A place I have seen
A place I long to be

Where there are rules,
Where there is a bed,
Where the food smells good,
Where the wild thing's aren't.

There is a place
real far away,
a place I know,
a place I have seen
A place I long to be

Smell the good smells of food...
from far away,
where the wild things aren't,
where I want to be...

There is a place
real far away,
a place I know,
a place I have seen
A place I long to be
where some one loves me best of all...