(NOTE: Trailblazing English is used in this monologue.)
Character: Apollo, Godde of Reason, Patron of Troy
Setting: Above the ruined palace of Ancient Troy
Background: Apollo, Godde of Reason, looks down upon a ruined Troy, lamenting the futility of humin battles, and wondering if he should take the ultimate step to end all humin suffering forever.
APOLLO
If only you could see with the eyes of Godde,
all things would be so simple.
Then the variety that so pleases Heaven
would please you, too.
If only you could see yourselves as siblings
sharing the world in blessed siblinghood!
Can the humin mind ascend to such simplicity?
Instead you think that if two things be different,
one must needs be better. —
And those with the largest voices or armies,
mistaking this Chaos for Order,
inflict their views upon the rest
with no regard for dignity or will,
intelligence nor talent,
but seek to assign each place and role,
and turn all rank with ranking!
What care have you for Godde when you abuse each other so? —
When I must feel the pain of every slight or slash?
A daughter sobs into her pillow. — I know her anguish!
A son is stricken on the battlefield. — His agony is mine!
How long must I carry your grief and pain?
How long must I watch those whom I love suffer?
You have cried rivers; you have bled rivers.
And has your long history of suffering not yet taught you
the futility of humin battles!
And how can I call myself a loving godde
when, with a thought,
I could remove all your suffering?
Yet such a thought that I refuse to think!
For you know joy as well as sorrow;
that joy, too, is mine.
And of such great quality is contentment
that for its each brief moment,
we’d endure a thousand sorrows!
I am like a laboring mother who suffers much
for her child’s sake,
yet forgets it all to see the child smile.
Goddes and mothers have much in common.
And, oh yes, you can learn! — The mind is your great gift!
Then with a mother’s love and a godde’s patience,
I hold back my hand.
© Justy Fairfield 2008, 2021
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