CONFESSION (A drama for two actors)
by D. M. Larson
From the play "Holy Ground" ISBN-13: 978-1502875990
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SCENE
Lights are dim and focus on a corner of the church which the
confessional. We see Jude and Delia but they are divided by a partition.
DELIA
I'm scared, Father.
JUDE
Scared?
Of what?
DELIA
Everything.
JUDE
God will
protect you.
DELIA
I wish I could
believe that.
JUDE
You can trust
God.
DELIA
I fear God. I
don't trust him. I am afraid what he is going to do. I am afraid of
what will happen every day... If I go outside, what will be waiting for
me? There's something wrong out there. Something's not right.
JUDE
Things are
changing. I have sensed it too.
DELIA
What do we do?
jude
Trust in God.
DELIA
Back to that
again... How can I trust him? How can I trust the one who took my
father away? How can I trust the one who turned my mother into a drunk? How I
trust the one who put me in the house of someone who abused me? Every day
I lived in fear. What would happen if I stepped outside my room? I
didn't know what was waiting for me. I never knew what would wake up that
day. The creep, the angry one, the monster... I didn't even want to get
out of bed anymore. It got too hard. I was too scared. I
would hide and pray to God to help me. But God never did. My
childhood gone and my only escape was adulthood.
JUDE
You blamed God
for all that?
DELIA
Even if God
didn't do it why did he let it happen?
JUDE
He will never
give you more than you can handle.
DELIA
I can't handle
it though... I'm going crazy.. The fear is crippling me... I have to drag
myself out of bed and force myself to live each day... Sure, I put on this
happy face... People think I am pretty cheerful... No one cares to see the pain
under my skin... The pain that's ripping at my soul.
JUDE
God sees.
DELIA
I know.
JUDE
Have you
sinned?
DELIA
What?
JUDE
Are you a
sinner?
DELIA
I don't
know...
JUDE
Do you think
about sinning?
DELIA
All the time.
JUDE
What stops you?
DELIA
Fear... Fear
of what might happen to me... See, I'm afraid of everything.
JUDE
Your fear
could be a blessing.
DELIA
What?
JUDE
It keeps you
from doing wrong... It keep you from doing anything evil.
DELIA
I hope so.
JUDE
Do you feel
tempted?
DELIA
All the time.
JUDE
What tempts
you?
DELIA
I'm tempted to
give up... It's too hard to keep living.
JUDE
Perhaps you
need something to live for.
DELIA
I do.
JUDE
We will ask
God to give you something to live for... We are all born with a purpose.
DELIA
I just want to
know what it is.
From the play "Holy Ground" ISBN-13: 978-1502875990
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