Romeo and Juliet

What are we really presumed to be? 
Bleeding heart poets or lovers of romantic comedy? 
Can love really be more than a rush of emotions 
To your brain or just to your groin? 
Can two lovers be 
Two sides of the same coin? 
Did Shakespeare see in all of us, 
The world - the greatest stage? 
A place where scenes are acted more than merely played? 
But what would he have become... 
Of his Romeo & of his Juliet in these days of the gun? 
With faceless watchers at faceless windows, 
The media surrounding them on all sides, 
Who would care if the love of a Romeo 
Had a chance to grow rather than die? 
A Shakespearian tragedy of a more modern day romance, 
Than the burning of Neroes Rome or the fall of Napoleans France, 
Love that is cast aside into the deep and dark abyss... 
Before it's had the strength to grow, 
Before it's even had a chance.