“I Killed Him” (drama) 2 Minutes

Monologue Description: “I Killed Him” is about a former prisoner, giving advice to his nephew.

Character Description:  In this monologue, Roz, a tattooed man in his late fifties, gives advice to his nephew.  Roz’s nephew is in many ways living a similar life that Roz once did.  Robbing cars, holding up grocery stores and getting into fistfights while pool sharking, is not what Roz wants to see his nephew doing any longer.  He sits him down privately to have a heart to heart talk with him, with the hopes of changing his ways for the better.

ROZ: 

I was a wild one but I changed my ways.  You live life to learn from life and you take what you learn in order to bring about better days for yourself and for others if you can.  That’s what I’ve done and that’s why I’m talking to you now.

I used to rob cars like in that movie “Gone in 60 Seconds” with Nic Cage.  I like his character in the movie cause it reminded me of myself, of my Golden Years of wildhood.  haha.  But I wised up.  Got busted, did my time.  It was in jail that I began changing.  I became friends with this man name Price.  He taught me a thing or two about “harnessing the power of your mind”, as he would put it.  He was a good man, a wise man…my best friend.  He got jumped in prison and was killed, nothing I coulda done to save him.  I heard his cries for help but there was nothing, nothing I coulda done to get to him…his death was the major turning point for me, his scream echoed through my blood stream louder than any drug I had ever done.  I felt like Moses receiving the Ten Commandments, let me tell you.

Point is, nobody’s perfect.  We all fuck up one way or another.  We all have life lessons to learn from, grow from, if we choose too.  You need to choose to move forward, or decide to let yourself fall victim to rotting.  Cause that’s what your doing, if you ain’t busy living, you’re busy rotting.  Now, you’ve done some wrong things, you have, but you can’t let it destroy you.  You will ruin your potential as a man if you continue on with your foolish acts.  I did and I paid the price.  You can stop now and make things right for yourself.  Don’t end up here like your Uncle Roz.  Sure, I know, my name on the street is talked about but it means nothing.  It doesn’t do shit for you but glorify you.  Who needs the glory? 

The man I used to be, I killed him…it was the only murder I ever committed and it was a good one.  I am complete now.  You too, will be complete.  You are way better off than I was kiddo, trust me.  Your sins cannot compare to mine but you do need to make changes and I’m telling you that once you do, it’s like already having entrance into God’s pearly white gates.

I don’t mean to get preachy and all that, but you know what I’m trying to say to you boy.  Wise up and stop doing what you’ve been doing.  Make me proud and your mother proud.  Don’t follow in my footsteps.  A real man is a man that can get up and go to work everyday and support his family.  Not the hustler.  I believe you are a real man son.  I have my faith in you, have faith in your uncle and do as I ask. 

You will thank me later.