I Gave You Goodbye

He stood at the edge of the world and glanced down.  "There are better things for me," he tells the monster standing behind.

The monster, a grotesque fragment of someone he used to know, rears its head and gurgles a threatening growl.

"I don't need you anymore."

The beast cries out.

"I'm leaving you behind."  And he leaps, having little to do with faith, and falls into the unknown.