Brother Herbert
by Tommy LeVrier
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GROVER - is around thirty. He has a “burr haircut” with longish sideburns and wears a
Polyester jacket and tie. Grover mimics everything the preacher says and often jumps out
of his chair and raises his hands in inspiration from god. He moans a lot and sometimes
speaks in tongues.
BROTHER HEBERT - (pronounced “a bear”) is a trim, 55-year-old Pentecostal preacher
in a starched white shirt and tie. He is passionate, charismatic, and sexy in a way.
LITHANN – Her hair is piled high on her head in a huge bun and she wears a long,
Victorian dress. Her saltiness and direct manner make her appear younger than her 80
years. She is a Pentecostal from way back.
Setting:
A large, Pentecostal church in the small town of South Peeveetoe, Texas. The church is a
fairly new building. The ornaments are modern, but a little tacky.
Time: Fall. Early evening.
At rise Brother Hebert stands at the pulpit.
He is worked up already. Slightly in front
of him to his left, Lithann sits on a church
bench that faces the congregation at an
angle. Grover sits on another bench at the
same angle on the right side of the preacher.
HEBERT
It’s time we woke up. The wolf is at the door. I say it is time we stop being the spiritual
soup kitchen for the world.
GROVER
Tell it brother.
HEBERT
The Revelation said there would be a great war. The country will have two million
soldiers. One third of the men in the world will die. Only one country has two million
soldiers. And that’s China.
LITHANN
You got to watch out for China. I never liked them in the first place.
HEBERT
Fight the devil. Fight the devil. They’re not taking me. Face reality. The wolf is at the
door. China. Indonesia. The Muslims. It’s time we fought the devil! Who am I talking to?
I know somebody has got to be out there. Is there anybody out there?
GROVER
I hear you brother. Keep ah talking. You saying it right.
LITHANN
I’ll fight the devil with you.
HEBERT
I’m preaching for you from the gate of hell. I know I’m preaching to somebody!
HEBERT
The waters of this world are bitter. Only Jesus can make it sweet to drink. The tree fell
into the oasis. And what was the tree made of? Magnesium. Milk of Magnesia. That’s
what this country needs. A good cleaning out. I ask for the cleansing of Jesus tonight
before you.
GROVER
(stands, raises arms)
Oh cleanse me sweet lord Jesus! I know I have sinned!
HEBERT
Someone out there needs healing. Someone. I see a man …fell off a ladder and broke his
back. I see an aqua-colored trailer house. With a fence the same color. With fish painted
on it.
GROVER
Yes sir brother. It’s my uncle. He’s laid up in his trailer house.
He is having trouble breathing.
LITHANN
No brother. That’s his wife who is having trouble breathing. She’s hooked up to an
oxygen tank in the trailer housie. His uncle almost blew them up last week when he lit a
cigarette…
HEBERT
Stamp out that cigarette! It’s the devil. Lord heal his broken spine. Overcome the devil!
You are stronger than the devil!
GROVER
Please help my uncle who is laid up in a body cast. And my aunt. She can’t take care of
him. She can barely take care of herself, much less him.
HEBERT
Bring your heavenly light over this trailer house this very night. I command you to be
healed!
GROVER
I love you Jesus. I love you so much. Lord I don’t deserve your kindness to me and to my
poor aunt and uncle and all my nephews and nieces who are in need of help too.
HEBERT
Here she is. The youngest member among us. You must be going on 80 now.
LITHANN
I believe I must be.
HEBERT
Do you have anything for us today?
LITHANN
As you know, my sister died just last week. You should know. You were the preacher at
the funeral.
GROVER
And a good call to the lord it was.
LITHANN
She died of a massive heart attack the night before Halloween. She said her chest was
hurting. Then she just fell over. She reached with her hands. We tried to grab her hands
but they just slid off. And she fell. They tried to revive her for 45 min, but couldn’t. She
had turned blue by the time I could get there although I was rushing as fast as I could.
HERBERT
She is in a better place.
LITHANN
I just don’t know what I am going to do. I keep thinking it's her. I didn’t sleep all night.
Everything reminds me of her. Every time I hear the door or the phone. I think it is her.
Everyday I see her little yellow house from my front window.
HERBERT
She is in the arms of Jesus where she belongs.
LITHANN
I went to the funeral early. So I could see her. She looked so pretty in her blue dress. Just
got her hair done on Monday. She was wearing her glasses. She even wore them when
she slept. I won’t be seeing her again never.
GROVER
She’s in a better place. She is with the angels. Oh, how I wished I could go ahead and
joined her.
HEBERT
Can we say a prayer for you Ms. Lithann?
LITHANN
Her son. He could have paid off that trailer house. He could have bought another one, but
he didn’t. He said he didn’t have time. Now those little babies he has had nowhere to go.
They are staying with me now. They were staying with my sister. I just don’t know
what’s going to happen to those little babies. Their parents don’t care about them. They
got no place to go. I just want to say a prayer for one of the twins, little Renee Nell, who
has a blood disorder and had to be life-flighted to the hospital just last month. I just want
you to say a little prayer for her. She needs surgery again and we got no money and her
daddy don’t care about nothing but the beer joint and his pickup truck.
HERBERT
Oh thank you sister! Lord please grant this little lady life.
Bring your heavenly angels of mercy.
(speaking in tongues)
Oh bee bah bet hadga hogad be bop a dog ga. Leema logga.touchhhh this little baby’s
blood disorder. Let her drop her crutches. Make her daddy come back to her. Make her
daddy, who doesn’t even care if he’s got a trailer house or not, return to his wife and
family and those little loved ones that are lost in the world.
LITHANN
Bring their worthless daddy, who is my nephew, and help him get back his trailer home
that got repossessed. And guide the surgeon’s hands when she has to get that operation
for her blood disorder, which has got out of control.
HEBERT
It’s a disposable society. Try it on. If you don’t like it. Cast it off. That’s what we come
to today. If you don’t like your wife, cast her off! Like a dirty shirt! Tired of your
children? Cast them off! Get some new ones! Try on another one! Disposable society.
There is those that brings children in the world and not takes care of them. Divorce.
Divorce. That’s the easy way. That the fast food franchise way. That the way of the devil.
We all want things fast and we got too much already. Want more. Want it fast. But not
taking care of what you got. Spoiled. That’s what they is. Had too much. Used to too
much. Too high a standard oh lord.
GROVER
Oh make him come back and take care of his little children. She deserves to live like
everyone else. Don’t let him get off easy.
In Jesus name amen! (holds hand on her head, whispering)
Lord save this woman. Let her drink the sweet water from your oasis tree in the dessert.
If you could just do that for me now.
GROVER
Lord please help this little baby and don’t make her end up in an iron lung like in a
county fair sideshow. She deserves a chance at life. She is too young and too precious to
die. I ask your sweet heavenly angels don’t take her away at this time.
LITHANN
She’s so precious with her little breathing tube. She looks like a little angel herself. And I
pray that that nephew of mine gets his job back in the oilfields.
HEBERT
You are taken care of…you are taken care of. Wait for your answer. Don’t do anything
rash.
LITHANN
No, brother, I promise to wait on the proper answer when it’s time. I won’t do anything
rash.
HEBERT
The power. I feel it in the church tonight. We can go on all night.
GROVER
(waving hands)
We’ll be here all night.
HEBERT
I lost all my money in the stock market. The devil took it. I have sinned. But tonight I
don’t care. We are going to save that little baby tonight. I don’t care about the stock
market. We are going to save that little baby if it is the last thing we do. The lord will
provide the medicines and operations for that little precious child.
LITHANN
Lord I don’t know what I deserved to deserve such an ungrateful son and his wife that
don’t want nothing but money. He’s just like his daddy. Turned out just like him. Takes a
job when he wants and don’t care about them little babies.
GROVER
Just like a little angel. It’s not fair. It’s not fair. Little baby deserves a chance.
HEBERT
Stamp it out! Stamp it out! Stamp out the blood disorder. Let her walk out of that hospital
by her own self. Drive out the devil. I’m here to fight him. I cast him out. I will not go
down without a fight!
He and Grover jump up and down as Lithann claps.
GROVER
I’m here to fight the terrorists! They don’t scare me! Enron neither! I feel the presence
tonight! We can go on all night!
(slows, looks depressed)
But, I know we shouldn’t. Some of you have to go to work in the morning.
(long pause)
I must confess. I lied. I’m not telling the truth oh Lord.
Tell it man.
HEBERT
I’m a hypocrite. I know I am. I lied. A horrible darkness came over me just last night. I
felt the darkness. The heaviness. I felt weak. So weak. I sat in the dark. I felt alone so
alone lord. All alone in this dark place. Not knowing where to go. Where to turn to.
It’s OK brother.
LITHANN
I felt that way lots of times. I know how that feels like. Oh lord, how I know.
GROVER
Don’t let the devil take you brother. He’s working you.
HEBERT
I could do a good job at 30. At 41 I could do a good job. At 52 I could do a good job. But
now, I can’t do it now. I can’t carry the load. If you never felt that way you will. Show
me what to do lord. Show me where to turn to. Show me a way out. Give me the strength.
What am I doing wrong oh lord? What do you do when you feel so worthless and pitiful?
LITHANN
He’ll show you the way. All you have to do is ask. I’ve been asking for years.
HEBERT
I did everything my way. I had everything I ever wanted. It wasn’t enough dear lord. All I
wanted I got. It wasn’t enough. It all looked so good on paper. But I did it my way. I
didn’t do it your way lord. And it didn’t work out for nothing.
It hadn’t worked out for me neither.
HEBERT
Lord pull me out of this crevice. Bring me out of this hell. I can’t carry the load for you.
One day you realize that all this work, all this study, has come to nothing. It has all fallen.
And at middle age you look at yourself and say…
He stomps his feet, walks toward
congregation, falls on knees.
Lord, have I flubbed it? (pause) Have I flubbed it? (weeping)
And you wonder about your choices. How did I get here? Have I made the right ones? If
you have never felt that way out there, you will.
GROVER
Have I made the right choices lord? Help me make the right ones.
HERBERT
Please forgive me lord and everybody else.
GROVER
Oh we forgive you Brother. Just like the time when we caught you having carnal relations
with the congregation lady in the pew one afternoon.
LITHANN
Just like we forgive you for running off with her to be married.
GROVER
But we forgave you because you come back three days later.
HEBERT
I have made my mistakes.
LITHANN
You sure have.
GROVER
We all does brother. It was like the time my cousin and I went to Louisiana and…
HEBERT
(interrupts)
The dream. All I’ve ever wanted. It was all so perfect and it all comes fumbling down.
All I wanted. God, I was a jet pilot! It was not enough oh lord. It was not enough. It was
supposed to be all so perfect. It was supposed…was supposed to be just right. It was the
right thing, I got it just liked I wanted it. Now I want to go back. Before I was chosen. I
had it in my hands. In the palm of my hands. Then I picked up the book. I was chosen.
GROVER
You don’t choose it. It chooses you. He chooses you. You got to believe. You have to
give him control.
LITHANN
You made the right choice brother! Don’t turn back. We needs you too much. I don’t
know what I would have done if you hadn’t been there when my second nephew got sent
to prison for drugs.
HEBERT
I was on top of the world. Lord, I want to go back. I felt alone in my mansion. That was
nothing. This is a bigger load. I was a jet pilot lord. Flying high. I had everything my wife
ever wanted. But I took the calling. It was easier being a jet pilot!
GROVER
Jet pilot ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. I seen where the terrorists…
HEBERT
(interrupts)
The onslaught of emptiness. The timorous turpitude. Shaky, I was shaky lord. Alone in
my living room. My house is empty. The death rattle is at the door. The wolf.
LITHANN
It’s the devil showing up. He can’t stand nothing but misery.
HEBERT
(speaking slowly)
I took the ball. I can’t carry it lord. I can’t carry the ball. I’m dropping it. The isolated
battlefield of discouragement. The wounded warriors of the church. You left them to lick
their wounds. The insidious isolation of the injured individuals. The enslavement of the
assigned.
GROVER
You got to carry on. We’ll help you carry the load. We always has.
HEBERT
Lord why did you choose me? I am weak. I cannot fight the devil anymore. I am weak, so
weak. Its coming over me again lord. I can’t go on. I can’t carry the load anymore. My
knees are shaking. I am bowed. Stumbling, lost, confused. I’m not the right one lord. I
cannot carry the assignment any longer. I am weak. I have fallen short….
I was a jet pilot lord! Why did you take me! Put me back!
GROVER
(moaning)
Lord, help him get over the devil. Don’t let the devil take him.
HEBERT
Lord, take me, take me now. Take me to heaven. Take me away from this place of
temptation. It’s too much of a load. The devil is too strong for me.
(pausing)
Lord, pick somebody else!
(pausing)
Pick somebody else!
(pausing, speaking softer)
Lord, Choose somebody else.
(pause)
Please choose somebody else.
Please choose somebody else.
//ww
Characters:
GROVER - is around thirty. He has a “burr haircut” with longish sideburns and wears a
Polyester jacket and tie. Grover mimics everything the preacher says and often jumps out
of his chair and raises his hands in inspiration from god. He moans a lot and sometimes
speaks in tongues.
BROTHER HEBERT - (pronounced “a bear”) is a trim, 55-year-old Pentecostal preacher
in a starched white shirt and tie. He is passionate, charismatic, and sexy in a way.
LITHANN – Her hair is piled high on her head in a huge bun and she wears a long,
Victorian dress. Her saltiness and direct manner make her appear younger than her 80
years. She is a Pentecostal from way back.
Setting:
A large, Pentecostal church in the small town of South Peeveetoe, Texas. The church is a
fairly new building. The ornaments are modern, but a little tacky.
Time: Fall. Early evening.
At rise Brother Hebert stands at the pulpit.
He is worked up already. Slightly in front
of him to his left, Lithann sits on a church
bench that faces the congregation at an
angle. Grover sits on another bench at the
same angle on the right side of the preacher.
HEBERT
It’s time we woke up. The wolf is at the door. I say it is time we stop being the spiritual
soup kitchen for the world.
GROVER
Tell it brother.
HEBERT
The Revelation said there would be a great war. The country will have two million
soldiers. One third of the men in the world will die. Only one country has two million
soldiers. And that’s China.
LITHANN
You got to watch out for China. I never liked them in the first place.
HEBERT
Fight the devil. Fight the devil. They’re not taking me. Face reality. The wolf is at the
door. China. Indonesia. The Muslims. It’s time we fought the devil! Who am I talking to?
I know somebody has got to be out there. Is there anybody out there?
GROVER
I hear you brother. Keep ah talking. You saying it right.
LITHANN
I’ll fight the devil with you.
HEBERT
I’m preaching for you from the gate of hell. I know I’m preaching to somebody!
HEBERT
The waters of this world are bitter. Only Jesus can make it sweet to drink. The tree fell
into the oasis. And what was the tree made of? Magnesium. Milk of Magnesia. That’s
what this country needs. A good cleaning out. I ask for the cleansing of Jesus tonight
before you.
GROVER
(stands, raises arms)
Oh cleanse me sweet lord Jesus! I know I have sinned!
HEBERT
Someone out there needs healing. Someone. I see a man …fell off a ladder and broke his
back. I see an aqua-colored trailer house. With a fence the same color. With fish painted
on it.
GROVER
Yes sir brother. It’s my uncle. He’s laid up in his trailer house.
He is having trouble breathing.
LITHANN
No brother. That’s his wife who is having trouble breathing. She’s hooked up to an
oxygen tank in the trailer housie. His uncle almost blew them up last week when he lit a
cigarette…
HEBERT
Stamp out that cigarette! It’s the devil. Lord heal his broken spine. Overcome the devil!
You are stronger than the devil!
GROVER
Please help my uncle who is laid up in a body cast. And my aunt. She can’t take care of
him. She can barely take care of herself, much less him.
HEBERT
Bring your heavenly light over this trailer house this very night. I command you to be
healed!
GROVER
I love you Jesus. I love you so much. Lord I don’t deserve your kindness to me and to my
poor aunt and uncle and all my nephews and nieces who are in need of help too.
HEBERT
Here she is. The youngest member among us. You must be going on 80 now.
LITHANN
I believe I must be.
HEBERT
Do you have anything for us today?
LITHANN
As you know, my sister died just last week. You should know. You were the preacher at
the funeral.
GROVER
And a good call to the lord it was.
LITHANN
She died of a massive heart attack the night before Halloween. She said her chest was
hurting. Then she just fell over. She reached with her hands. We tried to grab her hands
but they just slid off. And she fell. They tried to revive her for 45 min, but couldn’t. She
had turned blue by the time I could get there although I was rushing as fast as I could.
HERBERT
She is in a better place.
LITHANN
I just don’t know what I am going to do. I keep thinking it's her. I didn’t sleep all night.
Everything reminds me of her. Every time I hear the door or the phone. I think it is her.
Everyday I see her little yellow house from my front window.
HERBERT
She is in the arms of Jesus where she belongs.
LITHANN
I went to the funeral early. So I could see her. She looked so pretty in her blue dress. Just
got her hair done on Monday. She was wearing her glasses. She even wore them when
she slept. I won’t be seeing her again never.
GROVER
She’s in a better place. She is with the angels. Oh, how I wished I could go ahead and
joined her.
HEBERT
Can we say a prayer for you Ms. Lithann?
LITHANN
Her son. He could have paid off that trailer house. He could have bought another one, but
he didn’t. He said he didn’t have time. Now those little babies he has had nowhere to go.
They are staying with me now. They were staying with my sister. I just don’t know
what’s going to happen to those little babies. Their parents don’t care about them. They
got no place to go. I just want to say a prayer for one of the twins, little Renee Nell, who
has a blood disorder and had to be life-flighted to the hospital just last month. I just want
you to say a little prayer for her. She needs surgery again and we got no money and her
daddy don’t care about nothing but the beer joint and his pickup truck.
HERBERT
Oh thank you sister! Lord please grant this little lady life.
Bring your heavenly angels of mercy.
(speaking in tongues)
Oh bee bah bet hadga hogad be bop a dog ga. Leema logga.touchhhh this little baby’s
blood disorder. Let her drop her crutches. Make her daddy come back to her. Make her
daddy, who doesn’t even care if he’s got a trailer house or not, return to his wife and
family and those little loved ones that are lost in the world.
LITHANN
Bring their worthless daddy, who is my nephew, and help him get back his trailer home
that got repossessed. And guide the surgeon’s hands when she has to get that operation
for her blood disorder, which has got out of control.
HEBERT
It’s a disposable society. Try it on. If you don’t like it. Cast it off. That’s what we come
to today. If you don’t like your wife, cast her off! Like a dirty shirt! Tired of your
children? Cast them off! Get some new ones! Try on another one! Disposable society.
There is those that brings children in the world and not takes care of them. Divorce.
Divorce. That’s the easy way. That the fast food franchise way. That the way of the devil.
We all want things fast and we got too much already. Want more. Want it fast. But not
taking care of what you got. Spoiled. That’s what they is. Had too much. Used to too
much. Too high a standard oh lord.
GROVER
Oh make him come back and take care of his little children. She deserves to live like
everyone else. Don’t let him get off easy.
In Jesus name amen! (holds hand on her head, whispering)
Lord save this woman. Let her drink the sweet water from your oasis tree in the dessert.
If you could just do that for me now.
GROVER
Lord please help this little baby and don’t make her end up in an iron lung like in a
county fair sideshow. She deserves a chance at life. She is too young and too precious to
die. I ask your sweet heavenly angels don’t take her away at this time.
LITHANN
She’s so precious with her little breathing tube. She looks like a little angel herself. And I
pray that that nephew of mine gets his job back in the oilfields.
HEBERT
You are taken care of…you are taken care of. Wait for your answer. Don’t do anything
rash.
LITHANN
No, brother, I promise to wait on the proper answer when it’s time. I won’t do anything
rash.
HEBERT
The power. I feel it in the church tonight. We can go on all night.
GROVER
(waving hands)
We’ll be here all night.
HEBERT
I lost all my money in the stock market. The devil took it. I have sinned. But tonight I
don’t care. We are going to save that little baby tonight. I don’t care about the stock
market. We are going to save that little baby if it is the last thing we do. The lord will
provide the medicines and operations for that little precious child.
LITHANN
Lord I don’t know what I deserved to deserve such an ungrateful son and his wife that
don’t want nothing but money. He’s just like his daddy. Turned out just like him. Takes a
job when he wants and don’t care about them little babies.
GROVER
Just like a little angel. It’s not fair. It’s not fair. Little baby deserves a chance.
HEBERT
Stamp it out! Stamp it out! Stamp out the blood disorder. Let her walk out of that hospital
by her own self. Drive out the devil. I’m here to fight him. I cast him out. I will not go
down without a fight!
He and Grover jump up and down as Lithann claps.
GROVER
I’m here to fight the terrorists! They don’t scare me! Enron neither! I feel the presence
tonight! We can go on all night!
(slows, looks depressed)
But, I know we shouldn’t. Some of you have to go to work in the morning.
(long pause)
I must confess. I lied. I’m not telling the truth oh Lord.
Tell it man.
HEBERT
I’m a hypocrite. I know I am. I lied. A horrible darkness came over me just last night. I
felt the darkness. The heaviness. I felt weak. So weak. I sat in the dark. I felt alone so
alone lord. All alone in this dark place. Not knowing where to go. Where to turn to.
It’s OK brother.
LITHANN
I felt that way lots of times. I know how that feels like. Oh lord, how I know.
GROVER
Don’t let the devil take you brother. He’s working you.
HEBERT
I could do a good job at 30. At 41 I could do a good job. At 52 I could do a good job. But
now, I can’t do it now. I can’t carry the load. If you never felt that way you will. Show
me what to do lord. Show me where to turn to. Show me a way out. Give me the strength.
What am I doing wrong oh lord? What do you do when you feel so worthless and pitiful?
LITHANN
He’ll show you the way. All you have to do is ask. I’ve been asking for years.
HEBERT
I did everything my way. I had everything I ever wanted. It wasn’t enough dear lord. All I
wanted I got. It wasn’t enough. It all looked so good on paper. But I did it my way. I
didn’t do it your way lord. And it didn’t work out for nothing.
It hadn’t worked out for me neither.
HEBERT
Lord pull me out of this crevice. Bring me out of this hell. I can’t carry the load for you.
One day you realize that all this work, all this study, has come to nothing. It has all fallen.
And at middle age you look at yourself and say…
He stomps his feet, walks toward
congregation, falls on knees.
Lord, have I flubbed it? (pause) Have I flubbed it? (weeping)
And you wonder about your choices. How did I get here? Have I made the right ones? If
you have never felt that way out there, you will.
GROVER
Have I made the right choices lord? Help me make the right ones.
HERBERT
Please forgive me lord and everybody else.
GROVER
Oh we forgive you Brother. Just like the time when we caught you having carnal relations
with the congregation lady in the pew one afternoon.
LITHANN
Just like we forgive you for running off with her to be married.
GROVER
But we forgave you because you come back three days later.
HEBERT
I have made my mistakes.
LITHANN
You sure have.
GROVER
We all does brother. It was like the time my cousin and I went to Louisiana and…
HEBERT
(interrupts)
The dream. All I’ve ever wanted. It was all so perfect and it all comes fumbling down.
All I wanted. God, I was a jet pilot! It was not enough oh lord. It was not enough. It was
supposed to be all so perfect. It was supposed…was supposed to be just right. It was the
right thing, I got it just liked I wanted it. Now I want to go back. Before I was chosen. I
had it in my hands. In the palm of my hands. Then I picked up the book. I was chosen.
GROVER
You don’t choose it. It chooses you. He chooses you. You got to believe. You have to
give him control.
LITHANN
You made the right choice brother! Don’t turn back. We needs you too much. I don’t
know what I would have done if you hadn’t been there when my second nephew got sent
to prison for drugs.
HEBERT
I was on top of the world. Lord, I want to go back. I felt alone in my mansion. That was
nothing. This is a bigger load. I was a jet pilot lord. Flying high. I had everything my wife
ever wanted. But I took the calling. It was easier being a jet pilot!
GROVER
Jet pilot ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. I seen where the terrorists…
HEBERT
(interrupts)
The onslaught of emptiness. The timorous turpitude. Shaky, I was shaky lord. Alone in
my living room. My house is empty. The death rattle is at the door. The wolf.
LITHANN
It’s the devil showing up. He can’t stand nothing but misery.
HEBERT
(speaking slowly)
I took the ball. I can’t carry it lord. I can’t carry the ball. I’m dropping it. The isolated
battlefield of discouragement. The wounded warriors of the church. You left them to lick
their wounds. The insidious isolation of the injured individuals. The enslavement of the
assigned.
GROVER
You got to carry on. We’ll help you carry the load. We always has.
HEBERT
Lord why did you choose me? I am weak. I cannot fight the devil anymore. I am weak, so
weak. Its coming over me again lord. I can’t go on. I can’t carry the load anymore. My
knees are shaking. I am bowed. Stumbling, lost, confused. I’m not the right one lord. I
cannot carry the assignment any longer. I am weak. I have fallen short….
I was a jet pilot lord! Why did you take me! Put me back!
GROVER
(moaning)
Lord, help him get over the devil. Don’t let the devil take him.
HEBERT
Lord, take me, take me now. Take me to heaven. Take me away from this place of
temptation. It’s too much of a load. The devil is too strong for me.
(pausing)
Lord, pick somebody else!
(pausing)
Pick somebody else!
(pausing, speaking softer)
Lord, Choose somebody else.
(pause)
Please choose somebody else.
Please choose somebody else.
//ww