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"To Be or Not To Be?"

To die or to live?
To sleep or to stay awake?
To love or live alone?
This is really the question.
Pondering the right and wrong.
Instead of seeing what is really there.
Hamlet stands preaching to the audience;

"To be or not to be: That is the question. . ."

The answer?

That is for you to choose.
Look at the life that Hamlet doth live.
Looking for answers.
And seeing the world only one way.
Seeing his mother as something wrong,
disrespecting women instead of seeing who they are.
All of them are the same.
I suppose?
But oh, Look at Ophelia--
She loves him so.
Is she like his mother?
That will marry someone else,
the moment the her love is dead?
Oh no. . .
For her love is true.
Doth not Hamlet see that?
But oh it is to say,
that mortal men
take mortal hand.
And make mortal choice,
on mortal land.

Look at the darkness that this play doth cast.
Look at the monsters that the world will out last.
Look!
Oh look!
For do you not see?
The thin line between,
living and dying.
Dreaming and waking.
Saving and killing.
Hating and loving.

We all have a choice to make.
To love.
To live.
To dream.
To breathe.
To save.

To die.
To wake.
To kill.
To hate.

To lie.
To cry.
Those tears and precious fears.
Of forgotten years.
Forgotten days.
Forgotten times.
Forgotten ways.

Stop pondering. . .
Stop wondering. . .
Stop dying. . .
And start living.

The question is simple as it would seem.

To be or not to be?
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