Demons and Angels of Ambition (A Play)
Tragic Play, Self Exploration
Date Published: 05-05-2024
The Unraveling is a play about an ambitious little girl with a demonic
presence inside her who goes through an year long journey of enlightenment
in the woods, that helps her vanquish her demons, escape her past and
restore her faith in the Gods, who have given her a short lived but powerful
destiny.
EXCERPT
Ghost 1 (among the ghosts): she seems changed, from cruel to silent and this is not a harsh silence but rather a calm one. My ghosts, what is your impression of this change?
Ghost 2: I daresay she has become a slave of the Gods. They need no words nor no love from others when they have the claws, the wrath and the signs of the Gods to guide them. These slaves, suffering within themselves, are unharmed and unpredictable for external forces. They are destructive and yet their destruction is for a greater agenda, for a new creation out of the broken pieces.
Ghost 3: look at her looking at the sky when everyone else sleeps in their houses. She waits for her lover on this street and yet in her mind, has no thought of him at this moment. She looks at the sky, and is alive only for the sky. She has bowed down to it. To the Gods. To everything that she can see is beyond her soul and beyond the existence of the world. She has learnt faith in her lost journey. I wish it does her some good.
Ghost 2: come now, the boy comes. Let us take our leave. Our haunting will affect her none and only torment us through her numb gaze. Let us take our leave. Come now, ghosts, let us go back into the dark and leave the girl stuck in the middle of her fate. *Ghosts leave into the narrow dark lanes of the neighbourhood.*
Act 4 Scene 3
Shy boy and Little Girl
Shy boy smiles a sweet smile as he slowly walks toward little girl under the dim streetlight of the dark street. It is a full moon tonight and both of them feel like wild animals being tamed by each other’s eyes.
Shy boy: our hearts are connected. I sensed your return and here you are, awaiting my arrival. Do you know that some people are destined and we are those? This connection is made by a God, and not by us and this is why we shall always find our way back to each other. I will not speak more about my love, since it will never be enough, not for me to speak and not for you to listen. It won’t capture the immensity.
Now tell me, you disappeared for a year into the great woods and I knew you would come back, even if you yourself questioned it. I know how much you wished it even. But here you are, here you are, with me. We thought we could trick each other through games of love and we did, but we also ended up tricking ourselves and now we are intermingled, I am you and you are me, and in my heart, we are only one.
We thought distance would tear us apart but it has created, instead, a fire within our souls that can only be extinguished by our touch. Do you think that maybe we have become like the Gods through this love, that we have become supreme and greater and infinitely greater than the universe itself, by being so far away from the world of our reality and so consumed within ourselves? Ah! Silly notions for silly lovers.
About the Author
Yashika Vahi is an author, poet, content writer and creator. She loves
travelling and making sudden plans whenever she’s not writing and has
an unhealthy obsession with coffee. She’s vegan and passionate about
talking on subjects like mental health, philosophy and literature.
She’s also obsessed with the idea of romanticising the darkness in
life.
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