Short Dramas and Plays

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Reader 1: I have brothers
Reader 2: I have sisters
Reader 3: Who hurt. Everyday they hurt.
Reader 1: Or fear that today they may be taken away from their families.
Reader 2: By those who do not know
Reader 3: Those who do not know the wonderful
Reader 1: Magical
Reader 2: Powerful
Readers 1,2,3: Truth

Reader 1: They are sometimes starved
Reader 2: They are often beaten
Reader 3: They are suffering
Reader 1: and crying
Reader 2: waiting for the day
Reader 3: that they no longer feel
Reader 1,2,3: Pain

Reader 1: I wonder, sometimes
Reader 2: How they hold on
Reader 3: How they still believe
Reader 1: when they have to watch their children die
Reader 2: and their wives suffer
Reader 3: Just because they believe there is such a thing as
Reader 1,2,3: Truth

Reader 1: I wonder sometimes what they think
Reader 2: What they pray
Reader 3: When they’re stuffed in a cell
Reader 1: alone with only the stench
Reader 2: of a prison
Reader 3: they do not deserve
Reader 1,2,3: The truth shall set you free!

Reader 1: But my brothers are not free
Reader 2: My sisters are not free
Reader 3: They are hunted
Reader 1: They are abused
Reader 2: Raped
Reader 3: Violated
Reader 1,2,3: Captive

Reader 1: It makes me angry
Reader 2: It’s not fair
Reader 3: It’s not right
Reader 1: It shouldn’t be like this
Reader 2: They want to bring
Reader 1,2,3: Light
Reader 1: into darkness
Reader 2: They want to bring
Reader 1,2,3: Love
Reader 1: into a world of hate
Reader 1,2,3: They did nothing wrong
Reader 1: They are not criminals
Reader 2: They don’t want anything
Reader 3: They want to give away
Reader 1,2,3: Love
Reader 1,2,3: Truth
Reader 1,2,3: Peace

Reader 1: But the people who do not know truth
Reader 2: are afraid
Reader 3: “The light shines in the darkness
Reader 1: But the darkness has not understood it”
Reader 2: So they try to destroy what they do not know
Reader 3: with malice
Reader 1: with hatred
Reader 2: with violence
Reader 3: and murder
Reader 1: and torture
Reader 2: and slander
Reader 3: and rape
Reader 1: and slave labor
Reader 2: and whippings
Reader 3: and kidnapping
Reader 1: and stabbings
Reader 2: and stealing
Reader 3: and beating children
Reader 1,2,3: STOP!!!

[BEAT]

Reader 1: I want to find them-
Reader 2: the people who do not know truth
Reader 3: I want to find them
Reader 1: and slap them
Reader 2: and hold them down
Reader 3: and strangle them
Reader 1: “Don’t you see!”
Reader 2: I want to yell:
Reader 3: “Don’t you know!”
Reader 2: “that these are God’s children?!”
Reader 1: “Let them go!”
Reader 2: “Let them live”
Reader 3: “I’ll kill you if you don’t!”

[BEAT]

Reader 1: But then I remember a voice
Reader 2: Nearly dead but fully alive
Reader 3: That once said:
Reader 1,2,3 (not in unison): “Forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing”
Reader 1: And I realize
Reader 2: that I was once somebody
Reader 3: who did not know
Reader 1,2,3: Truth

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