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.
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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