CATERPILLAR:
All this way! All this effort! To end up here…
in this miserable,
dark place.
(I don’t like this place…)
CATERPILLAR:
Dream-Maker? Do You hear me? I hate this place!
Oh-why-oh-why, did I ever pray those prayers!
Dream-Maker how much longer? Haven’t I waited long enough? Dream-Maker?
I did everything You told me to do—I followed. I obeyed Your instructions. Is this all there is? Is this what obeying gets you?
A tight dark cell—alone? Dream-Maker, why don’t You answer me?
I call and call… are You there?
(DREAM-MAKER:)
I’m here.
CATERPILLAR:
Oh… (whew!) Dream-Maker, it’s You!
I called and called…
Can we go now?
Dream-Maker? (sniff-sniff)
Pleeeeeeeez… let me out!
Who among you fears the Lord and obeys his Servant? If such men walk in darkness, without one ray of light, let them trust the Lord, let them rely upon their God. (Isaiah 50:10 TLB)