I lightly step out of the limo,
Right onto the red carpet.
Lights flash all around,
Almost blinding me and
making me lose my balance...
Just for a moment.
People I have never seen before,
Scream my name.
Asking for this or that;
"Sara is it true..."
"Sara, over here please?"
"Can you sign this for me?"
I take a moment to catch my breath
And comply with everyone requests.
No, it's not true that I'm dating so-and-so.
Yes, I am doing a new movie.
I walk queitly passed all the photographers
And nudge my acting buddies as I walk by.
The give me a "Yea, I know" kind of smile as I pass.
Of course they know...
they've been here far longer than I!
I laugh as I make my way
to my seat and look around.
No one I care to know about
except my loving husband sitting beside me.
"Do you think you'll win?" He asks me.
I say I don't think so and smile.
Just then my idol comes by
and taps me on the arm.
"You'll get it. Don't look so concerned,"
Johnny says.
I laugh, point to Julia Roberts,
and shake my head.
"I can hope though, can't I?"
They've started annoucing the nominees;
I'm in there somewhere,
but I wasn't paying much attention.
They say some more corny jokes and finally,
Begin to open the envelope.
I couldn't even hear Danny say
"You did it love!"
When they annouced my name
as Best Actress.
I get congratulated as
I walk slowly down the pathway;
Secretly hoping I don't look like an idiot on stage.
I take my Oscar and stand dumbfounded.
"I'm speechless," I say.
Which is true in two ways,
because I don't know what to say
And I never expected to win
so I don't have a speech.
I say my thank yous,
"Especially to my familly,
and my loving husband.
My co-stars....you're great."
I smile, wave, and am led
off by someone I don't remember.
At the after hours party,
I shake so many hands,
I'm afraid my fingers will fall off.
"In two years, you'll be bigger than I am!"
She says as she walks by.
Thank you, Julia.
But I don't think so.
I kiss my husband as we leave the party
And he helps me into the limo.
We get home and I fall right asleep.
I wake up the next morning
With my clothes still on,
hovered over a book.
Oscarless and fameless..It was all a dream.
*sigh* well, I can hope, can't I?