*plain black box*
>Stagining #1
-Separate lights go up on both girl and boy
-Boy’s side has a blue tarp underneath him
Girl: I am writing to you from the bottom of the banyan tree, manman says that banyan trees are holy and sometimes if we call gods from beneath then, they will hear our voices clearer. Now there are always butterflies around me, black ones that I refuse to let find my hand. I throw big rocks at them, but they are always too fast.
Guy: I go now as though it was always meant to be, as though the very day that my mother birthed me, she had chosen me to live life eternal, among the children of the deep blue sea, those who have escaped the chains of slavery to form a world beneath the heavens and the blood-drenched earth where you live.
Girl: Last night on the radio, I heard that another boat sank off the coast of the Bahamas. I can’t think about you being in there in the waves. My hair shivers. From here, I cannot even see the sea. Behind these mountains are more mountains and more black butterflies still and a seas that are endless like my love for you.
Guy: Perhaps I was chosen from the beginning of time to live there with Agwe at the bottom of the sea. Maybe this is why I dreamed of the starfish and the mermaids having the Catholic mass under the sea. Maybe this was my invitation to go. In any case, I know that my memory of you will live even there as I too become a child of the sea.
-Lights go down
*Girl is alone*
*The boy is dead*
-Lights go up on the girl on her side of stage
Girl: I cannot fathom why the universe hands me such bad luck. My love is gone, and so goes my only peace of mind in this existence. I need to be with him. I need to hear his comforting voice. I need to hold his hand. The world that I live in is so violent and I don’t have enough power to make it peaceful. The noise will not stop. I am trapped.
I cannot handle this anymore…
-Lights go down
-Audience hears sound of sea
>Staging #2
-Lights go up on girl in middle of stage
*Girl is on “cliff”*
Girl: This is it, what will be next? I am but a being in the natural world, leaving to the supernatural. Will our spirits meet when I go? I hope to float like a butterfly... to you.
*She jumps*
-Lights go down
*back to plain black box*
*Guy enters the scene*
>Stagining #3
-Lights go up on both sides
*She awakens on the floor*
*she sits*
Girl: What is this place? *looks at hands* I feel weightless…
*looking around*
*confused*
Guy: *Turns to girl* Why are you here? This cannot be your time. *to himself* you possessed so much life when I left you.
Girl: *sees the boy* *steps back* Am I blind? Is it just a fantasy?
*surprised*
Guy: *walk towards girl*
Girl: *gets up* *walks towards him*
Guy: I knew you would come, but not this soon. I would have waited as long as you needed to live your life in our last form.
*walk around each other*
Girl: I couldn’t fathom living, knowing that you were gone.
Guy: Did you write to me?
Girl: Of course. Everyday.
Guy: Me too.
Girl: What happened then? Were you hurt? Could you feel death?
Guy: There was no where else to go. I jumped like the rest off the boat. I drowned, peacefully. My senses were numbed, there was no pain. The only thing I could feel was the deep ocean caressing my whole existence… and the warmth of love I had from you. Once I was here enough time though, I felt your soul. I knew you must have been hurt in some way.
Girl: I wasn’t hurt. I flew to you and now we are here. All I wanted since you left is to be somewhere with you.
Guy: *a little angry* Now that you are with me, I feel powerless without someone representing my life on earth. We are so likeminded, you should have lived out a legacy we could have shared. You could have made a difference on behalf of both of us.
Girl: *looks down* *a little sad*
I could not change my destiny to be here. We all have a different walk to live, and this is mine.
Guy: No, it was mine. My death was not voluntary, it was true. You were selfish. Now we both have to look down and see all of the violence. Up here we are both peaceful, but trapped. There is nothing you can do to help. I can only feel the pings of anger and hatred filling into the place I called home. One day it will boil over, and I will only sense the dull emptiness of my people gone and defeated.
*Starts to rant, upset and emotional*
Guy: My family, one by one, giving their lives over to the XXX, fighting for our people. I cannot help them. I cannot do anything. I feel dull and numbed to the cause I devoted myself to. I needed to be there, I needed to help. I should have known the boat would sink. I could have done so much more, I could have been smarter, I could have fought in a different way.
Girl: *quietly* I was trapped. This was my escape, our escape. You could have died either way, land and earth could not change what was meant to be. Accept your freedom. We are here now, healthy and unbound.
*Guy turns to girl*
Guy: I left a coward.
Guy: I was selfish, bound to my desire for freedom. Instead of standing up for my kind, I fled, representing nothing. Leaving you, leaving everyone.Things should have been different.
Girl: *walks over to guy* But they’re not. You lived the life you were supposed to live. A coward refuses to face their truth, but you accepted yours head on, and completed a task that most people are so afraid to face. You wanted freedom for yourself and our people, and you brought other people one more reason to keep a legacy alive.
Guy: Then why can’t I be in peace?
*Girl is consoling guy, lights go out*
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