β€œThe Love I Sought Was Always Mine”

Act VII – A Monologue of Longing and Return

🩰 Scene Opens.

The stage is dim. A rose window bleeds moonlight through soft velvet drapes. A chair sits center stage, empty but waiting. A single candle glows. A journal lies closed beside it. Then β€” a figure steps forward. Cloaked in longing. Crowned in quiet ache. She speaks β€” not to an audience, but to her own forgotten heart.

πŸŽ™οΈ Monologue:

β€œWhere is the love that calleth my name? I have wandered, bare-footed through hearts, Lain beneath stars, lips parted in hopeβ€” And yet, no arms did know my shape.”

β€œI sought him in glances, In promises swaddled in silk and silence. In the hollow warmth of near-enoughs. But each touch turned to mist.”

β€œThen did I wake β€” not with bitterness, But with a truth more fierce than flame: The love I sought in others Was but the love I was starving to give myself.”

β€œO foolish heart! To wait for a mirror To tell thee thou art worthy of thy own reflection. Each ache I placed in another’s hands Was a letter I had sealed, but never read aloud.”

β€œNow, by moon’s vow and breath anew, I claim the one love that shall not flee: Mine own.”

β€œNo knight. No lover. No salvation needed. I am the one who stays.”

The candle flickers. The rose window fades. She lays a hand upon her chest β€” A gesture of promise. Of return.

🎭 The Curtain Falls.

And somewhere, beneath the silence, you remember: The greatest love is not found β€” It is remembered within.

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