3/23/08

Last act...Last scene



Lady : I think its going to rain today…..

Gentle man : how do you know..?

Lady : The sky…

Gentle man : The sky…?

Lady : uhuh…

Gentle man: those are drifting clouds mah lady… they wouldn’t pour here….

Lady : but see how the sky looks…. hefty and so full of itself…just the way it does before
It rains…..

Gentleman : drifting clouds Marie…deceitful drifting fellas….

Lady : deception is a tool more handy to man….than to nature…

Gentleman : man is what he is at nature’s behest…

Lady : That’s an excuse more than an explanation….

Gentleman : it ain’t

Lady : it is…. It is cynicism

Gentleman : big words!… quite capture the imagination…don’t they…

Lady : big words when used correctly…quite capture the imagination…my dear

Gentleman : so you know all about words and their meaning

Lady : I know what I know…and I hope to know more…

Gentleman : if you know all then why do you leave things to hope?

Lady : I have no liaisons with hope… it ain’t a mortal counterpart you see..

Gentleman : then what is it…?… a convenient escape route?

Lady : it something as opposed to knowing….higher than believing and weaker than
Desiring…..yet sometimes knowing and hoping become the same…

Gentleman : Dramatic Romanticism….

Lady : No I ain’t romanticising, I am just hoping that It rains today…..and I know
That it will…..





7 comments:

Raunak Baral said...

beautiful!

Minakshi said...

elegant...

reema said...

@rain maker: thank u
@minakshi: i am glad u still find elegance in me.

Anonymous said...

Its quite good actually...the way it drifts off and comes back to the same point in the end.
are you writing about yourself at times??

claytonia vices said...

lovely! :)

Subbie said...

This is one of the more eloquent yet succinctly put across messages i've seen in a long time now. And for one so young, to understand the perversity of a thought so myriad and complex, is extremely heartening for a fellow writer and contemporary. Great work Reema, though you could have done away with the inconsistent Southern drawl and witticisms, it kinda broke the tempo of the story for me at times...otherwise, EL BRAVO!

nilanjana said...

...such a myriad of emotions...