The Bee & the Butterfly - Scene 4 of 7

Scene 4: The Hills Outside Paradise �"

Enter the Gardener, with Simon & Attendants.

 

THE GARDENER:

 

Go my helper, Simon, and do these things for me!

Love’s lily glows and glorifies my garden!

 

Go first unto Andre where he doth breathe his last

Among the brambles and the weeds.

 

Give something like a sleep to him,

And cause him too, to drift into a dream

About the roses, I shall plant when I am ready.

 

'Tis good that he shall see these things to come -

 

SIMON:

 

And then, to seek them.

For in his seeing of those things,

Andre shall know that you have stirred.

 

THE GARDENER:

 

Then wait awhile beside him till our papillon arrives,

For broken hearts will look to hold their lovers.

 

Take these pure crystals from my Fount of Tears,

And with them make my sign upon her breast;

For she must know that I, like her,

Am but a fool for love.

 

And as these crystals mark her as our own,

She shall in all things be my confidante �"

And yes, my best, most-favored bee!

 

Then, let Andre awake unto her touch,

And with a better knowledge of her heart,

 

Make wreaths of roses

For his house and mine.

 

Go, and see that this is done,

For I have other matters to attend -

A knight^[1] I know upon another plane

Has come to me, and near the rose

 

I call “Immaculate,”

 

I shall grow him in my garden.

 

(Hands Simon an Orb of Light,

Blesses Him and Points to the Hills)

 

Again, good Simon, go!

 

And be the lightning

 

That doth stir

The world to love!

 

SIMON:

 

I will in faith do as you say.

 

Exit All

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[1] A reference to Baptiste De Guerre (de-GYARE), a fictional French crusader and mystic. De Guerre’s troubled inner world is the focal point of Osowski’s Seventh Decoration, “The Crimes of Mars.”

 

 

Author's Note

This piece is a part of my revised work, previously posted at WritersCafe.org. It is from a book in which some of the entries are written in prose or poetic prose.