Scene 2nd Decker is alone,
driving at night. The Figures in
Black move
scenery across and behind his car windows.
The windows are down and he is singing
DECKER: I really
dont have any idea why, why her? Then begins gently singing to himself, DECKER: Im too old to be in love Not again, not
now, not after all these years. I dare not feel what my heartless soul longs to feel, Im too old
to dream of holding her, too old
to feel what my heart wants to feel. My Heart
breaks for lack of what it never had, Dare not have,
breaks for love of one I dare not
love, I can not speak
her name. Im too old,
too old to be in love, In love with her Not this time, But what is this time? Why do I long for her, the one I can not have? Im far too old to feel
what I want to feel, I dare not
speak her name, The thought of
her, of her sweet lips, untouched by mine. Never to be touched by mine, Never to be touched by mine. Fear turns my poor heart cold, Ends thoughts of love before they dare begin Im too old,
too old to fall in love Not this time, Not NOW pause But yet after all these years. Shall I not
feel what I long to feel? Her lips are warm, or so I dream, I dream Of her sweet lips constantly Heaven awaits me in just one name, A name I dare not say. Yet, if heaven awaits me there. Why do I delay? I fear the
thought of her, I love the thought of her I dread the
sight of her, I live for the sight of her I wake from sleep and mourn the empty space Both in my bed,
and in my heart
. pause Im too old,
too old to feel this way, Yet heaven rests, dear God, in her sweet name I shall not love her, God, how I love her Im too old To fall in love
.Yet I am in love.
He stops singing,
stops the car (that is the scenery stops moving and reveals him to be
parked beside the edge of a forest. Her
voice echoes for a few moments, then all is silent. DECKER: spoken
strongly, angrily You are a fool! He starts the car,
the scenery again begins moving, I know, He slams on the
brakes and the stop jerks him forward. As
he looks through the windshield he sees a large mound in the middle of the road.
There is silence except for the chirping of crickets and tree toads.
The lump moves and reveals itself to be a large raccoon, staring
directly at himilluminated only by his headlights, and the overhead light in
the car, they stare at each other. Then
the raccoon starts running around chasing its tail, in front of him.
It stops, looks and stares at him for a while longer, then repeats the
action, chasing in the other direction, again it stops, and again it stares. DECKER: I must be
terrifying the thing. He turns out the
headlights, there is total darkness for a few momentsonly the sight of
fireflies lights the dark. Then he
turns the lights on. The length of this pause should be about the time it takes
to say three Ave Marias The
raccoon is still in front of him and repeats its actions twice DECKER: Id better try and get around the thing,
it must be rabid or something, poor beast. He drives around
the raccoon, back stage to it, then on and off the stage DECKER:
Coffee my ass, there goes my sobriety, and my life, and for what?
..The sisters
emerge from the wood once more. LAURAL:
Close sister dear, too close. But
such inspiration, a raccoon? EILLAINE: The
Nameless One is here somewhere, waiting.
If he had gone there tonight, he
might have been greeted with what he wanted, and offered death? LAURAL: And not
knowing that it was eternal death that awaited, EILLAINE: Rhiannon.
Birds are heard singing for a
moment, then all is silent, not even the normal night sounds LAURAL: Did I hear something? EILLAINE: I thought, for a
moment, but thenhas the night taken a sudden chill? I feel so cold. LAURAL:
I felt it too, must be a storm approaches.
They exit stage right, hurriedly JACK PATCH: They seem
so bewildered, these sisters, Wisdom without
reason He disappears off stage, the curtain falls.
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