Same, dark room. Young Woman chained to a Young Man is sat on a chair. Young Man is naked he is kissing the woman
Young Woman Sometimes I fell like I am going to burn to death (Pause)
Like flames are uncontrollably dancing in my wains
Not like the wave of heat that you get when you look at
something that excites you
Certainly not a shower of running embarrassment that
makes your cheeks turn to strawberry red
Not even the burn of liquor going down the throat
But burning flames
Like open fire
Storming fields of everything that is alive
I could really do with a drink
Not that it would help
The heat would burn it out in seconds not leaving a
chance not even for mare pleasure (Pause)
Kiss me here
She gives him her hand. Man kisses her hand and then carries on kissing where he pleases.
It was different when we smoked
We drank loads of tea too
To fill in the gaps revealing lack of passion with well
mannered chatter
That's why we never drank together
Out of fear of disappointment
This whole place is to blame that we turned out to be
cowards
Kiss me here
She points to her neck
The greatest ideas and the most grand plans of order
taking turns as if dancing like no one is watching
And you would think that the whole world should be
watching
For what it matters I think it is watching only so it
wouldn't have to care for other things
Minding your own business is so out of fashion
Some of us have it sorted better than the others
Compensating for each other
It is a dance of contradiction
Beautiful dance
Kiss me here
She tries to wrap herself around him
We never danced
Yet again being cowardly to see what it is that is actually
going on
And now
I despise you
Your endless weakness makes me want to throw up
Pathetic is the only word that comes to mind when I think
of you
Kiss me
Kiss me
Kiss me
Kiss me there
Kiss me where I want to be kissed
Long Pause. Young Man is kissing the Woman with growing intensity. He kisses her from her neck all the way down to her toes, changing the rhythm this carries on for a while. All of the sudden woman grabs onto his hand.
Can you hear
Shh (Pause)
They are coming
Stop kissing me
Listen
They are coming
I can see their fire glimmering from a distance
They are almost here
Stop kissing
They will come soon and bring the end of us with them
Then we'll both burn
Wolfs howling in the distance. Woman’s eyes starts to move around searching for something, her body is absolutely still. Now she speaks in a manner that resembles a prayer or a chant.
And I'll turn into a tree
A huge tree
Such a huge tree that I will enter pleasure grounds of all
the gods
I will turn into a tree and such a huge tree that in those
grounds my shade will cover all the gods
I will be a tree a huge tree such a huge tree that I will
drink the whole of sunlight of the world into my leafs
And I'll be forever living as a tree such huge tree that new
worlds on my leafs could start to breed
I am a tree a huge tree and such a shame that you can't
see
And you will turn into a clover
A little clover
Such a little clover that you'll get lost in the whole
creation
You will turn into a clover such a little clover that you
won't sober up from sunlight not even when it's gone
And you will be clover such a little clover that you won't
have space not even for the spirit of your own
So here you are a clover such a little clover and only I can
see
Sounds of wolfs howling. Young Woman starts to laugh uncontrollably, young man kisses her with growing intensity. Lights slowly fade. Darkness.


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