The Edge of Goodbye

Themes: Contemporary, Death, Dramatic, Loss, Love
Length: 2 Minutes

The character stands alone on stage, surrounded by dim lighting, giving the sense of being lost and alone. Occasionally, they look up as if speaking directly to someone who’s no longer there. Their movements are minimal, emphasizing the weight of their words.

I didn’t think I’d be standing here, staring at nothing and feeling everything. You were supposed to be here. With me. We were supposed to have more time, more laughs, more stupid fights over what to watch on TV or whose turn it was to take out the trash. I know everyone says that life goes on and time heals all wounds, but they never tell you how to fill the space where someone used to be. How to breathe when every breath feels like it’s cutting through you.

You were my anchor, you know? My safe place when the world got too loud. And now, every little thing reminds me of you. That old sweater you left on my couch, your favorite song that keeps playing on the radio—like the universe is mocking me, reminding me of what I can’t have back. It’s funny, in a twisted kind of way, how something can be gone and still take up so much space. How someone can be gone and still manage to be everywhere.

I keep thinking about our last conversation. It wasn’t even important. Just…mundane stuff. What to have for dinner, plans for the weekend. And now it’s stuck in my head, looping, like some stupid song you can’t get rid of. If I had known…if I had just known, maybe I would’ve said something meaningful. Something real. Maybe I would’ve told you how much you mean to me, how much you always meant to me.

But I didn’t. And now I’m here, and you’re…you’re not. And I don’t know how to do this. I don’t know how to keep going when every step feels like I’m leaving you further behind.

I miss you. God, I miss you so much it hurts. And I don’t know if that pain is ever going to go away. But maybe, just maybe, that’s okay. Because it means you were real. It means we were real. And I’d rather have this pain than forget you ever existed.