Epilogue – Let the Curtain Fall

I felt the familiar pains creeping back, overcoming, in waves, the morphine that was coursing through my veins. “Is this the end”, I mused? If this is to be the last act on the biggest of stages within the greatest of plays we know as “life”, what will my epilogue be.

I tried to live a life worthy of the sacrifices made on my account. I tried to tip the scales of greatness so my ledger would bear a profit for those in my life. I tried to live a life worth living and I even tried to pass as a poet from time to time.

Oh, how will I be remembered, as the bumbling clown that provides comic relief or as the protagonist that is always just out of reach of the sublime. This play has been given mixed reviews as it has ran for the last 74 years and now I can only beg the curtain to fall just a bit quicker. To meet me and take the pain with the darkness beyond the stage lights.

Let the orchestra play me out to that playhouse beyond what our eyes can see so that I may be reunited with those great men who allowed me to walk ever so briefly in their footsteps. I owe a debt to those whose shoulders lifted me up to attain the edges of the cosmos and I fear the life I lived may be short of the butcher bill I have ran up.

This was my attempt at the 5 Minute Freewrite for the prompt: Epilogue

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Originally published on steemit

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