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Breathless Nights

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Enter BIRDY, in a spotlight. He addresses the audience. He speaks simply, but with a deep, aching longing beneath his words.

BIRDY:
Have you ever felt alone? Not simply lonely, but utterly, heartbreakingly, world-shatteringly alone? Like there was no one in the universe, in all those deep dips and caverns and rolls of endless blue-black space, except for you? No sound but the low throb of galaxies forming a billion light-years away and the frightened beating of your own heart, no scent but the icy burning of the cosmos, no feeling but the cold, dead numbness of space? If you have, as I am sure is true, you know this: out of that solitude will rise a need so profound your body doesn’t know what to do with it. It travels to your hands and you begin to reach out in your sleep for someone lying next to you who isn’t really there. It travels to your legs and you walk the world a thousand times over for that someone, and they are still nowhere to be found. And finally, it travels to your mind. It settles between the nerves inside your head and fizzes and sparks alongside each reaction going on among your cells. And there, in the cool dark of your psyche, it creates a message, sent out into the infinity of the universe: Please. Send me someone, something, anything. Anything to ease this loneliness I feel.

And sometimes, the universe answers.

Blackout.
A monologue. I don't know what to do with it. Help?
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Ninefiftin's avatar
A great piece again. You express every single shade of loneliness in an incredible way. I love "world-shatteringly alone", and again, all those words around the universe and nothingness.
I think you should keep this monologue as it is ; no one should answer, for it is about loneliness, right ?