Chapter 22.
Scene 1.
Helena is in a casket in the room in front of the two busts portraying her and Seth. Seth is devastated from sadness and grief. But he also confronts himself, the fact that his loneliness in persistent, eternal, has always existed and in addition has become particularly obvious in his role as Emperor. Seth realizes that he remains alienated from human behaviour.
[SETH:]
Here I am where once we did sow our seeds.
Seeds of time – garden of truth inside my chest.
Now I enter the wasteland of my heart.
Now I perish deep in this empty room.
Hear it whisper – the wasteland of my heart.
Hear the longing, the loss, the sound of you.
Time breaks in pieces – bow my head and weep,
a welter of tears flowing down to where you lie…
Now I enter the wasteland of my heart.
Now I perish deep in this empty room.
Hear it whisper – the wasteland of my heart.
Hear the longing, the loss, the sound of you.