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Scene: Empty Stage On walks a lad apparently looking for something on the ground. Soon an onlooker approaches the lad. Onlooker: I say, what are you searching for so intently? Lad: (somewhat startled), Oh! You frightened me. You see, now I have been caught without them. Oh, no. I must not tell you. (Secretly and to himself). He must not know, no one must know. Onlooker: (Swinging his black cape over his left shoulder and sneering). Stop being so mysterious. Lad; after all I am an understanding person, perhaps I can help. Lad: (to himself), I need someone to confide in now, but what if he is one of those without any? He seems like an understanding person, yes, I will do it, I will tell him. (to Onlooker), You see, it all started when I began to doubt, then suddenly it happened and here I am alone, my morals have been lost. I have been scurrying to find them, before anyone discovers my helpless situation, but to no avail. Onlooker: (twisting his long black moustache between his middle finger and thumb). Nothing to worry about, my boy, nothing to worry about. Just come with me and we will forget about— I mean find— your morals or whatever. Lad. (confused), but, but, but, . . . Onlooker: (quickly throwing his caped arm around the boy). Now, now, my boy, just come with me. And off they go with Lad under the wing of Onlooker’s cape. In the not too distant future the two come to a waterfall. Lad sits down alone on a rock to meditate on the loss of his morals. Lad: Oh, Waterfall, may you be the object I need to convince myself that the loss of my morals was just. You are so beautiful and so happy, yet each day you lose so much of your precious water. What are a few morals compared to so much of your beautiful sparkling water. Waterfall: If only I could speak to you lad. You see the water that comes off of me is always replaced by more. I am constantly in a state of flux, never to run dry. Lad then once again left with Onlooker convinced he should no longer search for his morals. They walked for some time. When they stopped to rest they were in a sunny patch of grass. Onlooker sat under a nearby tree as he was one for shade, but Lad remained in the sun. Lad: (Still reflecting the loss of his morals). Oh, Sun, you are so beautiful, so warm, so rich, and yet you forever shed your light. I may this once shed my morals. Sun: Oh, Lad, but if only I could speak to you. I shed my light but I have an ever replenishing supply. This is the difference between us. Soon the duet traveled on again. Their final resting place in this day’s journey was a wheat fie ld. Lad: (wandering along in the field and still pondering his situa- tion), Oh, Wheat Field, your wheat is so beautiful, yet every fall you let your wheat die, so just this once I may let my morals die. Wheat Field: Oh, Lad, if only I could speak to you. Before my wheat dies I drop my seeds, thereby replacing the wheat that has passed on. But Lad was content, you see. As he rationalized away the prospect of searching longer for new, more meaningful morals he substituted in their place his shallow impression of other peoples values. Lad and Onlooker went forth arm in arm. —Nadine Bonda 15
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