Emerie's Song... 🎶🎙️🦄
<2025 Monologue Makeover>
Scene Description: A 10-year-old African-American girl with adorable, uneven, twin, ebony, afro-puffs happily residing atop her chocolate noggin, sings an original gospel song at a memorial service for a drive-by shooting victim.
Emerie's Monologue:
"Hi. My name is Emerie Thompson. I am from Miss Hope's fourth grade class at Sommerville Elementary school, and I'd like to sing this song that my granny wrote for my classmate Chuckie Rodriguez's family.”
“I'm sorry that Chuckie had to leave us so soon. He was a good friend to me. I will really miss our spitball fights and grape licorice dance parties!”
“Gun violence really, really sucks soggy lemons, but my granny told me to tell everyone that better days are ahead!”
Emerie's Song: (The Heart Mender)
In a beautiful soprano tone Emerie audaciously belts out:
"Remember it takes time to heal…🎵
With The Almighty’s loving hand upon your broken heart you most certainly will…🎵
Because HE is :
A Comforter🎵
A Benevolent Shepherd🎵
A Waymaker🎵
A Deliverer🎵
A Heart Mender🎵
A Cloud Lifter🎵
A Life Giver🎵
A Peace Provider🎵
A Wise Counselor🎵
And A Loving Father 🎵
For HE has the power to give life to the lifeless…
Sweet sleep to the sleepless…
And eternal hope to the hopeless…
For HIS loving hands make broken hearts new…
Because HE truly loves & cares for you…
Remember that HE died for us all…
So that we would have somewhere soft to fall…
Because HE is:
A Comforter🎵
A Benevolent Shepherd🎵
A Waymaker🎵
A Deliverer🎵
A Heart Mender🎵
A Cloud Lifter🎵
A Life Giver🎵
A Peace Provider🎵
A Wise Counselor 🎵
&
A Loving Father...”🎵
Closing Scene Description:
Emerie gracefully finishes her performance, curtsies clumsily, then quickly skips off-stage and then runs into her proud grandmother's awaiting arms.
About the Creator
Tiffany Gordon
I am a super-spiritual, fun-loving artist, writer, & peer-counselor residing in the Pacific Northwest. I am also an Institute of Children's Literature alumna who enjoys writing about the triumph of the human spirit.
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Comments (36)
Beautifully inspiring despite the tragic circumstances.
That's beautiful! Congratulations 👏🎉 on Top Story
Congrats on Top Story! 🎉 Well deserved. Keep up the good work!
Congratulations on your top story! It's great!!🎉🎉🎉
Yeah, Tiffany, congratulations on the leaderboard win!!!
Aww such a heartfelt story. Very encouraging. Congratulations on top story. And leaderboard placement.
Nice going on the Leaderboard!! 🥳 🥳 🥳
Wooohooooo congratulations on your Leaderboard placement! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Congratulations for topping the leaderboard this week!!!
Beautiful heart song...Congrats on the top story
Beautiful, Tiffany!! I'd like to echo Lamar's sentiment when I say, I am also glad to meet Emerie. Congratulation on Top Story!!!
This is a powerful tribute to unity.
Inspirational and beautiful. Nicely Done!!! Congrats on Top Story!!
Back to say congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Very inspirational and beautiful work!!!! Hugs 🤗 Tiffy
Well written, congrats 👏🏻
Back to say Congrats for the greatly deserved Top Story!!! ⚡💙⚡
I can picture Emerie being you at that age. Did you AI your song?
Fabulous writing here I love it ♦️♦️♦️
This was so special, Tiffa. 💖 I was happy to meet Emerie. Her running into her grandma's arms at the end was such a fitting and heartfelt scene. Lovely work!!!
Dropping in to say hello, and sing your beautiful song. Still shining that light everywhere Tiff, you are always blessed.
So lovely Tiff. thought it was for the challenge, I see Dhar mentioned it below. We sing praises every day. 🐦🦋
Emerie and her grandmother are such wonderful souls. Those lyrics are so beautiful. Would you be entering this into the challenge?
Pulls the heartstrings!!! Heartfelt and uplifting song!!! Bravo!!!❤️❤️💕
That's the bad side of guns. The evil people who use them on other people. Great story, Tiffany.