Actors Poem by Vasile Serban

I read sadness in your eyes,
It is a sadness written with new words,
By the writer of love dramas,
Who wants us to die at the end of the book.

I am the actor who listens
And knows how to carry out his role,
And you, the heroine actress,
Whom many like and admire.

I'm just a sentimental man,
Slightly graying, somewhat banal,
And you, the princess from another time
Now more refined and elegant.

We play our roles to the end,
Worried about only one fact:
If in the final act
We'll still be together.