A/N: Told from the POV of Quistis after Seifer's death…



He's gone, forever, and nothing will bring him back. Seifer's dead. I wonder why joy is so short-lived? In that moment when he told me he loved me, my heart lifted with a song of joy, which died almost instantly.

Time and fate are so cruel, tearing us apart. It's like ripping me into a million pieces, and scattering those pieces all over the earth. I thought I was complete before, but I realised that I wasn't…I was never complete till Seifer said he loved me. Yet…now he's left this world to a land beyond the ravaging hands of time. Without him, I am an empty shell. I will never be complete again.

The agony of loss sears through me, wounding my heart, wounding my soul. Creating an empty space, which will never be filled. Seifer…why did you leave me alone so soon? Why? As I ask you that question, I know you'll never answer.

Seifer, your hand in mine, full of warmth just a moment ago, is cold with the cold that only death can bring. Losing you is a torture. I barely tasted the sweet wine that was love before it slipped down my throat, leaving only the bitter dregs of your death.

I can feel the tears slide down my face. I wish the tears could move the sky, touch the unfeeling sky with grief, and I wish most of all that my tears could bring you back to life. But I have to face the harsh, choking, painful reality that they cannot, that all the weeping and crying in the world cannot bring you back.

Love has brought me the sweet fruit of joy, and now it gives me the bitter fruit of sorrow. Were we fated to part like this? A question that I can never answer, a question I will ask forever in the depths of my heart.

Yet the memory of you will stay in my heart till the end of time, and I know, deep inside me, that I will see you again, someday, in a land beyond the ravaging hands of time and the cruel hurt of parting. I will wait patiently for that day.

Goodbye, Seifer, goodbye, till we meet again, in a world free of the pain of parting. Goodbye…and know that I have always loved you…and that I will love you till and beyond the end of time.