To Walk - A Monologue

Antonia, a thirty-five year old woman is leaving her husband. Before she goes, she pleads to him one last time.

Anthony, I love you. I want you with me- I always have. But I’m going places.  I have dreams. I want to be someone. I want to look at myself in the mirror and know I’ve achieved what I was put here to do.  And I can’t do that standing still with you. I know it is hard to imagine a different life for yourself, but you have to want more than a one bedroom apartment in a flooded basement. I’m begging you. Come with me. (A moment.) I’ve thought about this a long time Tony.  I thought that I could try and carry you- strap you to my back and eventually you’d see the world and want more too.  But I can’t carry you.  If you want to come with me you have to walk.  I want you beside me. But you have to walk. You have to… to walk Tony.  You have to walk.