A play: after the sea we will see
The year is still 2050
Nothing change
Things............
Things will change,
this will be the last
after this we suffer no more,
no more pain,
this flood is for a reason,
the water will clean what must be cleaned,
we will be balanced,
our troubles will be solved,
there will be no more wars,
very soon
the door will open
and the guards will welcome us.
We lost the battle;
the years of fighting and resistance
have weakened our flesh and souls.
Our women, our children
and the ancient ones,
we lost a lot of them,
the land is burning with its contains
nothing is left for us,
except the anger and a great desire for revenge
our God does not allow us to destroy
and we can not fight any more
The God is not going to come down here to solve our things
The God armed us with brains
we have no reason to stay here
soon the water will cover every thing
we have to move quickly
if the mountain does not want to come to us
we still have the fire we can move to it
Throw yourselves in the water
the GOD will receive us the other side
if you reached before me
tell him, I will not be late..
first came the wind
then the rain
the doors of the skies widely open
the homes and what the entire human built
melted to the ground
the animals and the trees
swept away
so many things changed shapes
the place became a lake
And the people...
what happened to them?
The first wind took half of them
half of the other half followed the flood
some ran to no where
the rest of them
held to each others..........
To the sea....
to the sea...
the God is calling on us.
throw yourselves in the water
The God will save you.
run..
[When you lose your mind, you free your soul]
Scene (3)
a voice again:
His dream when he was among the others was to live a love story; he said to himself: [my story will be different from the others stories, my story will be simple, without complications, except from the ones that love brings]
She is an ordinary girl, her life is easy, sometimes is boring, she live in a big flat not very far from the big city, somehow she works as a social worker and she has a big office. Her job brought to her boring life the lives of The Others [the ones who live in the shadow of the big city]. Phone calls, she makes hundred of them every day; homeless, drug users, jobseekers, depressed and many others enjoy hearing her special voice, which fall on them like a heavy and smooth drug, sometimes they come to see her and other many other times she goes looking for them, they see in her their lost hopes, and feel the kindness we all seek as living beings. She can not change their living or heal their wounds, but the energy she has can make them forget for a short time their miserable lives; she can makes them laugh.
A police man who was meditating near the sea, saw from a distant 4 or 5 naked bodied, he phoned for help immediately, in less than 7 minutes the help arrived, 6 police cars broke the silence of the place and three birds left their food and flew away, when the approximately dead bodies heard the wacky and wack of the police cars; they started to move, they stood up, they shook hands and they kissed each others, when the police man saw this, he ran towards the coming help, the police cars stopped opposite to him, they talk to him and together they walk towards the moving bodies.
They are standing face to face; they look at each other, then
one police man:
Do you speak what I speak?
THE OTHERS:
Yes we do, sir.
Another police man:
Thanks to the heavens.
THE OTHERS:
THE HEAVEN!!!
Finally we arrived, he is right.
Then:
Manrato:
My name is Manrato, who are you?
One police man:
MAN...What? How are we?
Who are you guys? aaaawhere did you come from?
Sabto:
my name is Sabto, we came from the sea. This one is Sunshine and this one is Nabto [pointing at his two other friends]
one police man:
our pleasure!!! And?
Sunshine:
[very sweetly] we want you to take us to God.
[They all look at her at the same time, some laughed others looked upset then the main one said:]
The head:
listen to me, I am the head of this group, I do not know if you are speaking seriously. First we thought you were dead then we discovered you speak our language; there is something weird here, which I do not understand. I am very sure you need help, you must come with us and you need something to cover your bodies [he tells one of his team: go to the car and bring what they can use]
Manrato:
Are you God?
The head:
No, No, my sun I am not God I am A human being like you, you have to come with us, you need help.
Nabto:
we do not need help we have to meet with him, he is waiting for us.
The head:
As you want, come with us and you will see him.
[They smile, they use what the police man gave them to cover their naked bodies and they follow the head to the waiting cars.]
Scene (4)
Manrato:
IF you are God, we would like to talk to you in private.
Manrato said to One social worker, who gave all her attention, she looked confused, unsure of the mental state of the young man who was just brought to her office, she sat closer to him, she says:
One Social worker:
Oh, dear one, I am not God, you need to see a doctor, I will send you to a good doctor who is a friend of my Dad, he will help you.
Manrato:
No, NO, none of us need a doctor, we are in good health, we are just tired, the journey was not easy, we are very tired, what we need is to see Him and then rest.
One Social worker:
as you want, come with me.
[Manrato follows and the others behind him one after the other.]
Scene (5)
INTERVIEW
a voice:
She is sitting in a comfortable seat, a big table separating her from the chair where Sabto was sitting.
The Social worker:
What is your real name?
Sabto:
my name is Sabto, we asked the guard to bring us to God, first they did not understand us, but wait a minute, you are not him, you have hair like women and you smell like them, they lied to us, please help us beautiful creature.
The Social worker:
your name is Sabto, please listen to me, we all want to help you, we can not help you if we can not communicate, you have to help yourself first, we have to know where did you come from and what you need.
Sabto:
Our home land is call
The Social worker:
Do you know the name of your country?
Sabto:
We call it
The Social worker:
And how did you arrive here? Who helped you?
Sabto:
I do not understand this game, you know everything and you still ask us, do not you know our story? You know everything, do not you remember?
The Social worker:
Remember!! Remember what?
Sabto: One of you told us to throw our bodies in the water, we did so and now all of you pretend as nothing happened at all, you know me very well, me I do not know you, but you, you know me, you know all of us and you know our stories better than we do.
The Social worker:
relax.
Sabto:
I am relaxed.
The Social worker:
Do you want a glass of water?
Sabto:
if you do not mind I would like to have ten glasses of your holy water.
[light turned of while we hear Sabto drinking a lot of water]
scene(3) Babylon and Lucifer
through the lines she said to him:
Babylon: oh dear you have to see it yourself, the birds are weak they can not make it themselves, they do not understand the exile, their home land changed a lot and they did change also, they sing love songs in a different land, even their wailing is strange, oh dear I think you have to help them you have to save these lost souls, they are yours, go for them and come back you will have me.
He said to her through the lines:
Lucifer: oh piece from heaven, they had no option, the last and the lost Africans are lost for ever, after them Africa will never be the same, they have to open way to progress to the train, from the sea to the desert, from there to the jungle and finally there we are again in the ocean water, piece of heaven when I remember it, do you remember how good I shake ? Babylon right now I feel it, yes I do, I am shaking.
Babylon: stop it, stop it, wicked one, you are driving me crazy, hold the air in front of me, move your neck, and close your eyes, let them sleep now .
[she is sleeping, he is sleeping, we are sleeping and the light is turned off]
scene (4) The story of the village
Since she was born, the life in the village changed, first and last child, first she lost her mother then the father after that, she grow up among the people of the village, the homes became her home and the people her family. Same time, same place three others children passed through the same; Sabto, Nabto and Manrato had the same destiny as Sunshine.
The wise man told the villager: dig your graves and get ready, the beast is around at any time, our sweet and peaceful Africa is running through our fingers, we are loosing our future, Africa is dying, the cancer has found his final station between us, we are dying too, all of us will vanish very soon, very soon there will be no track for us in this lovely earth, let us give thanks for been part of this wonderful and magical creation.
[The villagers give thanks]
The wise man carries on: Except!!! The last and the lost African, they will carry all of us with them where ever they go and when they meet him they will demand what we want all, we want our home land back, we want it back, Africa, Africa and Africa, the same piece of land.
[Light turned off]
With the sea as a view,
The first time I saw you
I knew you have something special for me
I knew, you suit me
I will be very happy with you
Every thing in you is natural
Your smile, oh my God from it
Your smile is simple
When you walk, when you talk
Very powerful
And when you turn or stand or sit
You just push me to give thanks
Oh dear when I see you
I do not feel comfort
I feel loneliness
When your eyes meet mine
When they do travel deep
Into mines
Strange things happen to my heart
It jumps from one side into the other
Whispering to me:
Of your dearest father
Lucifer free me, free me
From this dark cave
Let us, me and you go
To where our hearts shall rest
My heart wants me to stay
As long as the sea does exist.
Lucifer:
If
If I break
If I break the wall
Will we be happy?
My lonely heart is beside your big heart
It is with you; promise me, I promise you
We will never leave the land
We will melt in it, with it
We will be the salt.
Lucifer:
The emptiness
And the sea are listening
Shall I leave them?
I am getting hot
Ignore them
Flood and rain
Give me
I want to enjoy the pain
Lucifer:
Oh dear one
When my thunder comes
I want to know where you going to run?
I knew you have something good
Hug me
Kiss me
Destroy me
{Thunder and rain, light turned off}
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