The Parable: A Dark Constriction
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…
YOU DIDN'T CHOOSE ME! I CHOSE YOU…
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…
Like withering grass, days slowly pass; I wonder why You haven’t come. My dreams still wait—the hour is late; When will my great deliverance be? ~~~ And bending low, You…
(DREAM-MAKER:) Time to wait. CATERPILLAR: How long? Dream-Maker! Are You listening? How long must I wait? What am I waiting for? Who? Will I know? When the time comes—will…
I’ve had you in the dark – it’s true! How could you understand? That all from the beginning Is exactly as I’ve planned. ~~~ Could I choose, dear one, to…
(DREAM-MAKER:) Far enough. Now go to the end of that branch… Hang from the end… and spin! CATERPILLAR: What!? What?! That branch… way out (gulp!) … there!? Hang from…
CATERPILLAR: Oh, dear… oh, dear… This thing You ask… It is too much! Remember me? I am only a tiny worm… that is all. Fragile, Dream-Maker… easily broken. Have You…
“Though we were once just feet of clay…
Who longed for only their own way…
(DREAM-MAKER:) The time has come… We are here… Climb. CATERPILLAR: Climb? This? Climb this tree? No, Dream-Maker, I cannot! It is too high! This calling of Yours, You ask…