#this play

so ive been thinking about Hamlet - as per usual and always - and listening to this song. what if in an adaptation of the play, at the end, when Hamlet is in Horatio's arms and has shoved the poisoned cup away ("Absent thee from felicity a while"), he softly sings this song. there's blood in his mouth and he's heaving and some bits he just whispers, but he tells Horatio, "There are things that need to be done. In your dreams I'll come along." - "When I go, please, stay, stay, wait." And he tells Horatio, "There is power found in this song," i.e. tell my story and all that came of it. And the last "Hear me..." is so soft that the audience bearly grasps it, but Horatio does and then Hamlet dies and Horatio starts sobbing and clutches his most beloved tightly -- "Now cracks a noble heart..."

He's left alone, on a stage riddled with corpses and blood and he only wants to follow Hamlet, but there's the ringing, the whispering in his ear: "Stay... Wait......."

I was not prepared