(The stage is dimly lit. A solitary figure stands center stage, trembling with a mix of anger, disappointment, and yearning. Their voice rises and falls like a storm trying to find its calm.)
Do you hear yourself when you speak? Do you hear the hollow echo of promises spilling from your lips like wine into a cracked cup—beautiful, tempting… but gone before it reaches the heart? Words, words, words… I have listened to them all. Sweet whispers, grand declarations, vows of loyalty and love… and yet… where are the deeds that follow?
You talk of courage, yet cower when the moment demands it. You speak of compassion, yet turn your face from the suffering you claim to care for. Every word you utter has weight—oh yes—but not the weight that matters. The weight that shapes the world, that etches itself into memory, that tells the truth… only action bears that.
I have watched. I have waited. And I have felt the sting of your empty promises. You think speaking loudly, speaking often, can replace the silent work of doing. But life does not bend to rhetoric. Life does not bow to syllables. Life bends only to deeds… the ones that are lived, not the ones that are spoken.
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