Anticleia+1

For My Son

media type="file" key="antic1.mp3" 1. ANTICLEIA: I am the noble queen, Anticleia. I can hardly remember the day when I last saw my saw, noble Odysseus, the king. __ 2. MUSIC: ABANDONED, SAD PIANO SOLO __ 3 ANTICLEIA: Ages it must have been since my eyes last glimpsed his face, my pride and joy. That day he left for troy, oh, I wept mournful tears of sorrow. Oh, how I missed him all those days, sitting alone in the palace. Now I am dead, forced to reside here, in the house of the dead. I had hoped that,perhaps, he would return one day and there would be great feasting and singing of song. And the dancing, oh what a magnificent dancer he was, that man of twists and turns.But, I soon gave up hope, no, there was no if I could see him again. However, there is no chance of that. __ 4. SOUND: WEEPING AND CRYING __ 5. ANTICLEIA: What? What is that I smell? Blood? An offering to the dead? And who is it that offers dead to us, the departed? No, it can’t be! My son!

__ 6. MUSIC: SHOW ME THE WAY, HAPPY AND HOPEFUL __ 7. ANTICLEIA: Oh, my joy to see you again! Odysseus, oh my son, what brings you down to the world of death and darkness? You are still alive! If I was not dead, I know, as we converse, that my heart would be beating with affection for my son, gone so many years. __ 8. SOUND: MUMBLING AND TALKING __ 9. ANTICLEIA: As we speak more, I long to hold him in my arms as a mother should, like a warm blanket on the coldest winter night. Oh, he has grown, but he is still, to me, the boy he was when he left years ago. However, that is the curse of us dead, never to touch or feel again. We talk of the kingdom and of his journey, but time flies fast and soon I must leave. __ 10. SOUND: GOODBYE! __ 11. ANTICLEIA: As I depart, I tell him to remember all that I had told him so he may one day tell his wife. My last glimpse is of him as I fade away, and as I do I know that now my soul can finally be at rest.