Jocasta:
A possession, that’s all I am to them. A possession! Didn’t
it
ever
occur to them that I’m a human being? Do they think that I have no
feelings,
that I can just forget Laius ever existed? Damn them all! He
hasn’t
even
been dead a week, and they want me to remarry! My poor darling
Laius,
I can’t betray you like that! I won’t! When you died, I died
with you.
All
that’s left of me is an empty shell. Everything around me is cold and
lifeless!
Look at this cold dead room with its cold floor, bare walls, and
empty
bed. Everything is dead!
Do
you remember, Laius, how happy we were when we found out that
we
were going to be parents? I told you on that very bed. Back
then, this
room
didn’t seem so lifeless. Often times, I sit, and I wonder what our
child
would
be like now. He would be all grown up by now.
I
can’t stand this silence! It just adds to the lifelessness of the
room!
It’s
so quite I can hear my own heart beating. Oh how I wish that it wasn’t!
This
room is so bare. There’s nothing in it except a bed, some rope, and
a
pin.
I
cry sometimes thinking about the pin that we stuck through our poor
baby’s
ankles. Laius, do you think that Teiresias was right? Do you
think
that
our poor baby boy would have grown up to kill you? Right now I don’t
really
think that it would have mattered if our son was still alive because
you’ve
been murdered anyways!
Laius,
the pain of not having you here with me is too much! I don’t
want
to marry again not now, not ever. I love you, and only you!
I must tell
you
though, that that’s not the only reason that I can’t do this.
I feel the cold
chill
of fear every time his name, Oedipus, is mentioned.
Do
you know what Oedipus means, Laius? It means swollen foot!
I
know
that I’m just being stupid.
I
have tasted the bitter sorrows of death before, and I am tasting them
now,
but I fear that in the future, I shall taste them again.
I’m
scared, Laius. I’m scared of living without you. You weren’t
supposed
to die! Our son was killed so that you could live! I wasn’t
supposed
to lose you both!
I
hate being treated like a possession! I have feelings!
Creon
wasn’t that bad of a king, I think that he should go on as king,
or
if not that, then Oedipus can be king, and I’ll step down from my throne.
I
can’t
deal with all of this! I miss you Laius! I need you!
I need a way out of
this
hell that I’m living!
[Jocasta’s eyes land on the rope]
That’s
it! My way out! It will all be over soon! I will join you,
my
love,
in death. If we can not be together in life, then life is meaningless
to
me.
I’m doing this for you Laius! My one regret though is not raising
children.
I always wanted to be a mother.
[Jocasta
puts down the rope]
I
will do one thing though before I join you. I must fulfill my dream
of
raising
children. I promise that I won’t love Oedipus. No one can ever
replace
you in my heart. There’s nothing that I can do to stop this marriage
anyhow.
After all I’m just a possession.
This was actually written as a school assignment. In english we had just read Antigone, and our assignment was to take any character mentioned in the story, and expand on the story. I chose Jocasta as my character. She was Antigone's mother/grandmother. This one applies to me because of the emotions expressed in it. I looked in my diary at the entries from when Joey broke up with me. I tend to be just a little melodramatic with my diary.
Emma:
They laughed. They all laughed at me! All of my supposed
friends
laughed at me! I can’t believe that I really thought that they were
my
friends!
Jack,
they laughed at me when I cried because the cafeteria reminded
me
of you. That was where we first kissed. Do you remember?
Of course
you
don’t remember. You can’t remember! You’re dead! Why
did you have
to
leave me? I need you.
Nobody
understands, Jack. They all think that I’m just being
melodramatic.
They all say that just because we’re 15 that it couldn’t have
been
love. But it was love! I loved you then, and I love you now!
Why’d
you do it? Whatever it was, you could’ve talked to me about it.
We
would have worked something out. That note that you left didn’t do
much
to console me.
Dear
Emma,
I
love you, but there are some things that even love can’t conquer.
I
have
problems that you couldn’t even imagine, and I don’t want to get you
involved.
This has nothing to do with you. Please don’t blame yourself.
Even
if you were here, there’s nothing that you could do to stop me. My
mind’s
made up. I know what I have to do. I’ll always love you.
Love,
Jack
Even
if you were here there’s nothing that you could do to stop me?
What
do you mean there’s nothing that I could’ve done? I know that if
I had
been
there things would have turned out differently. Jack, my heart is
breaking.
You made me realize that I was special. You showed me that I do
matter,
and when you needed me to be there for you, I wasn’t there.
Everything
that happened in my life before I met you is meaningless,
as
is everything that has happened since your suicide.
It
makes me so angry that no one thinks that it’s possible to be in love
just
because of our age. Is age really what matters? Are they saying
that if
soulmates
meet before they are 21, then it won’t be love? How old do you
have
to be for love to be real?
I
don’t care what they think about our relationship. It was real.
I
know
it, and you know it, and that’s all that matters.
I
miss everything about you. You can’t imagine how difficult it is
being
here without you. My best friend in the whole world, the one person
that
I could tell anything to, is gone. Gone forever.
I
always thought that we would grow up, get married, have kids,
become
grandparents, and grow old together, but now that’ll never happen.
You
know the saying, you always hurt the ones you love? Well, I see just
how
true it is now. I know that you loved me despite all of my flaws,
yet still
you
hurt me in the worst way possible. You left.
When
you were here, I felt like I belonged to the world. Now that
you’re
gone, I’m a lonely soul floating aimlessly throughout the world.
You
were
my guide on the path of life, and without you I’m lost.
Jack,
I can’t deal with this anymore. I know that it’s only been about
a month,
and everyone says that it will get easier, but I know that although
that
may apply to others in similar situations, it doesn’t apply to me.
This
will
never get any easier. It will only get harder, as the days pass and
the
realization
that you’re gone forever sets in on me.
I
have no one here to help me deal with this. You were the only one
who
understood me.
My
love for you was what kept me going, but it’s getting harder with
everyone
saying that it wasn’t really love. I know that it was love.
That love
kept
me going, and now, in the end, it’s also what’s tearing me apart.
I
suppose that you could say that it’s almost like a drug. Love, that
is.
I was
down when we met, and your love helped me to get out of my rut, and
up
into the clouds.
I
can’t live without your love, so it’s now clear what I have to do.
Juliet
said to Romeo, “ and all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay, and follow thee
my
lord throughout the world”. Now it’s my turn to follow you throughout
the
world or after world.
I
don’t care where we are as long as we’re together, and the only way
that
we can be together is in death.
In
your note you said that there was nothing that I could do to stop
you.
Now, there’s nothing that you can do to stop me. I’m coming to join
you,
Jack!
[Emma
opens a nearby window that’s on the 4th floor]
They
say that it is better to have loved and lost than to never have
loved
at all. I think that whoever said that is the wisest man who ever
lived.
I’m
going to make up my own saying now. Love is the place where two
perfectly
harmonious souls meet, and live. In that place, nothing matters.
Not
age, race, religion or anything. That, Jack is where I met you.
[Emma
puts her feet through the window, then the rest of her body. Takes
one
look inside, and jumps]
This one I just wrote on a whim of inspiration. Once again it's based on me and Joey. I think that I was feeling really depressed that day because it would have been our 9 month anniversary.
This is everything that I have written so far that I feel is worth being on the internet. I will continue to write more, and will be adding each new treasure to this site.
Love,
Alisson
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