05/02/2023
I am working on a play GUNS & gods about gun violence in America and this is the punch line that I want Marcus to deliver to the audience in the final scene. I would like your thoughts. It's rough, but it carries the sentiment that I wish to deliver to the audience.
“We say that we didn't want it to happen... that we can't believe it that it did, whole we wonder why and how when we know why and we know how. We claim that we don't let or make things like this happen, but it but we in our own little ways come to contribute in those things that we do and don't do and things that we say and don't say. It is in our own silence, our unwillingness to speak out that we all allow these stories of human tragedy continue to be. Whether it's out of fear, shame or maybe we're just too damn angry that it blinds us in our own pool of swirling rage knowing that there is no true justice to be found in any of it. There are no words that we can find to speak of those horrors and pains of sorrows that we know like personal Hells that burn in our heart, or worse we're alright with it, because it's not you or me that is until it is you or me who comes to be swallowed in some great storm where tragedies and travesties of the world wrack and wail like wind-song banshees leaving us to be hollow shells. Then, in our pain, our sorrow, our anger we come to take up the great cause to right wrongs of the world. But honestly, we know it's too late to undo what has been done, so we become self-made-martyrs. Sooner or later you and I, we will have to decide if we are helpless or hopeless to stop any of it or if we are willing to stand up and speak out and honestly deal with these unnecessary casualties of the human affair and do what needs to be done to fix it, to make it right. ”
