It isn't the language--
you get used to that,
and the more you hear,
the more familiar it sounds..
as familiar as your heartbeat,
as rhythmic as your speech.
It's the thought that's hard
to wrap your head around:
the themes, the universal themes
of jealousy, of rivalry, of hate, of love,
all jumbled together
as it always is in life.
Life condensed to hours
on a stage, life that stands
and shouts for attention;
inexplicable life with all its
inconveniences and wrong turns:
happy and tragic and comic life.
Our life, explained
by someone from another time,
another world that still offers
lessons for us all, lessons
for being human.
That is Shakespeare,
simplified.
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