Shattered Dreams of Hope (Imani/Aaron/Constantine)

IMANI: Shattered dreams of hope echo through the depths of my soul as if they were surrounded by sharp pointed cavern walls
Deep inside is where I will find, but I am deep and I have found nothing
I have found nothing because I am nothing
Shallow ink fills pages and pages of epic books and rage is my only outlet

*Progressively faster*
AARON: What
KONSTANTIN: When
AARON: Where
KONSTANTIN: How
All: WHY!

IMANI: Why is there why? Why do we justify with why?
Reasons upon reasons
KONSTANTIN: because
AARON + KONSTANTIN: because
ALL: BECAUSE
WHY do I feel trapped?

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*AARON Comes in With Feeling of being trapped and echoes Imani's last line*
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IMANI: Because somehow I've sense my reality crumbling upon me
A breath is taken for granted for this is all my mother needs but needless wants flaunt timeless tales of misfortune and misconduct
Abducted by the indigenous our minds journey through time

ALL:The past tells the future but our future is now present

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*KONSTANTIN: Comes in with a spin off of the word present being like a gift*
Ends line with
"The past told the future but my future is my present"
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IMANI:The hour glass still pours but when will stop?

*AARON makes starving pose, KONSTANTIN makes begging pose at the line*
I cannot make it, for the sacred takes it's toll and I roll through the punches
Numbed by my mind altering substances abundant to the starving and homeless

ALL: I am without am I not?

Sure my people are dying but I am too
Incarceration to the tenth degree

ALL: CAN'T YOU SEE?

*IMANI simultaneously removes glasses*
IMANI:Or do I need to check my prescription?

There I am squinting at what lies beneath the surface of my being and all I'm seeing is the truth and it more than hurts

ALL: It pierces through my heart
IMANI: like Excalibur another dragon slain
But I am not the hunter I am the prey that lays in the meadow while my herd runs frantically frightened

*KONSTANTIN and AARON come in together and egg him on switching roles in the middle to be different*

COME TO ME DESTROYER COME GREAT WARRIOR OF BRAVERY AND STRENGTH VIRTUOUS MASTER OF BENEVOLENCE AND UNDERSTANDING
COME!!!! END MY PAIN END MY SUFFERING TELL ME:
THAT, "It's gonna be okay!" AND LET ME TURN AWAY ONLY TO HEAR THE:

BOOOOOOMM!!

IMANI: I WILL NOT SEE ANOTHER DAY!
*BEAT*
KONSTANTIN + AARON: WE WILL NOT SEE ANOTHER DAY!
*2 BEATS*
ALL: YOU WILL NOT SEE ANOTHER DAY!

BLACKOUT Immediately as last Day is said