Revolution: A short play on the war for peace

Revolution: A short play on the war for peace.

Dramatic personae

Peace- a lady

Love

Violence

Poison

Caution

but mother

they are fools

for your breast out of you

is the deadness of rust-steel.

(From Olatunbosun’s the breast of our mother.)

ACT ONE. SCENE ONE.

An open space. Enter Love and Peace.

LOVE.

Peace, it is like ages to me

Like the pages of great books

Your days of being away.

I have missed the calmness of you

The flash of smile, and your beauty, too;

Your eyes of dove

That make stars of love

Burn fiery in my heart.

PEACE.

I have missed you too

Or was ekuro destined to leave ewa?

Or the snail, its shell?

It is the immaturity of violence

That breaks the union of me and you;

It is his folly that fouls our love

Eledua never meant it to be so.

We were destined for faraway forever

And for separation, never.

Or do you forget that my fish

Without the waters of you

Is not to be but be gone?

LOVE.

How can I not know?

Does your love not burn life-fire

In the heart of my hearts?

Without the calm of your breath

Can I at all survive?

Can death my sin, forgive?

Peace, when you fall in pieces

I fall apart, too

For says He, ‘’One flesh shall they be

These two’’.

PEACE.

But do you not only speak words

That you will later call

The story for the gods?

And like words which from the cock’s mouth fall

Impressum

Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Tag der Veröffentlichung: 18.10.2017
ISBN: 978-3-7438-3678-5

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This book is dedicated to my parents, guardians and every lover of peace