What’s Left of Us
In drama monologue What’s Left of Us, Walter speaks to his dying mother about how he hopes they can accept one another.
Featured Monologue – What’s Left of Us
WALTER: Things always unfold the way in which they must. That is what I’d prefer to believe, anyway. It really is such a waste of time…to think of things being different. What could have been? What should have been? I think that if things matter that much to someone, they will eventually take action. If they do not, well, then it wasn’t meant to be.
There were times we had between us when things could have taken a different turn; call it routine, call it habit, we always tended to drift along the same old path; neither one of us ever making an ample amount of effort to shift the wheel, if you will, not even in the slightest, and that should be okay.
I guess, what I’m trying to say to you, Beverly, is that what happened had to happen the way in which it did happen, for whatever reason, and it’s terribly fine.
I wish for you to know that it’s terribly, terribly fine. This is why I am here. Not for the paperwork, not for us to pretend as though we like one another; only to tell you that…only to tell you, Beverly, that…it’s too much to bear otherwise…if we can agree, at least on that, on some form of acceptance of us, of what we became, that that may be good enough, for the rest of what’s left.
(beat) Beverly?…Mom?…
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Monologue Summary
In drama monologue from What’s Left of Us, Walter goes out on a limb with his mother in hopes that they can mend their relationship before she passes on.
- Genre: Drama / Family Drama
- Length: ~1 Minute
- Monologue Character: Walter
- Age Range: Any
- Themes: family, mother / son
- Best For: Male Drama Monologues
World of the Play
- Cast Size: 1 woman, 1 man
- Characters in Play: Walter, Beverly
- Time Period: Modern
- Synopsis: In the one-act eplay What’s Left of Us, Walter visits his dying mother and attempts some form of reconcile, before it’s too late.
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Monologue Source: What’s Left of Us
What’s Left of Us is a dramatic one-act ePlay by Joseph Arnone, 2026.
