Actors

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.