{"sf1_id":494394,"sf2_id":"Rm0PENqm","title":"~The Great Masquerade~","author":"LovePaws","words":263,"posted_at":"2013-01-31T00:42:00.000Z","tags":["Dancing","Death","Grim Reaper","Poem","fools","life"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/494394-the-great-masquerade","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Rm0PENqm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/0f/e9/0fe94e89-07c1-44aa-b52f-ce4d5a3ddb15","description":"#2 of The World's Stage (Poems)\n\n\"All the world's a stage,\nAnd all the men and women merely players\"\n-William Shakespeare","content":"\u0026nbsp;\n\nCome one, come all\n\nit is the most magnificent show of them all\n\nwhere fortunes are lost, and fortunes are made,\n\nIt is the Great Masquerade!\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe angels are all singing in the choir\n\nand I do believe that is Beelzebub on the lyre.\n\nSo sit down and listen to the siren's lusty call,\n\nbut beware that you, into her sultry enchantment, do not fall.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nSo shall you dance to the endless song\n\none who's melody you knew all along\n\nOnce you start you can not once pause to bend\n\nfor you know all to well what it means for this dance to end\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThere will be those you know whose bodies will falter and slack\n\nonly to be swiftly spirited away by the faceless one in black\n\nIn vain you purposefully twist and sway\n\ndetermined not to be the next taken away\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nBut alas this is a fate you can not hope to fight\n\nalthough yours is quite an amusing plight\n\nyou believe you can outlast strangers, loved ones, all of those\n\nbut you do not understand... each song, each party, has it's close\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nNow it is night, yet still you remain\n\nthough things are not quite the same...\n\nwith each step your bones ache and creak\n\nyour body's much more old, much more weak\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAt the stroke of midnight you at last falter\n\nhave no regret for this was something you could not alter.\n\nAs you look up the dreaded black form comes into sight\n\nand whisks you away into the waiting night. \u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"The World's  Stage (Poems)","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/488280-a-cedar-wood-box.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/494993-dance-ballerina-dance.json"}}