Tired Script

Different characters in the same recycled plot,

I'm becoming stultified by the script

but still I fall into the same old traps

and find myself confused and tricked.

If my character decided to improvise

and work a shoot of heartfelt lines,

would he be able to rid himself

of a poor plot's pessimistic confines?

I can't put any conviction

into a part to which I can't relate
and when I try to be that person

I start to choke on my own self-hate.

Perhaps I'm just useless at this game.

Perhaps I don't suit this role.

But trying to be both him and me

has left me with a tear in my soul.

So tomorrow I must kill my character off

so he can't make a return series

and when I look back on his story

I'll see just how irrational my fear is.