I don’t know what it is, but it’s black, and it’s filling him up. And if I could I would pull it from his body. If I could I would eat it as my last meal. And I fly to him just to try. I hold his hand and hope that my pressure and my voice can drown the darkness. I hope I can pull the damned thing from him and swallow it myself. Snuff me out but please don’t take him. I supplicate as though I could coerce my light to fill him and banish what has taken him over. His words come as lilting breaths. Something just short of a whisper, yet still carrying his cadence. And he wants to leave. But I cannot let him. And I hold onto him, though he assures me I must let go. I must let go, though I crave to carry his contagion. His contagion, my very own albatross. And as the shadows overwhelm him, ragged and shallow breaths struggle to sustain him. But it is only a murky twilight leading into the complete void of midnight. And I don’t know the last time my eyes were dry, but I know it was dark just before. I know I held his hand, and the blackened disease circled our wrists. And that darkness never left him. It consumed me, but it somehow never left him. And I don’t know how, but it took him instead of me. And here I am. And everything is black.

I see you’re in the 99th percentile, yet you’re one hundred thousand miles from terra firma. Calculate those pro formas and try formally justifying your desert. I would just desert you on a random island and let those waves kiss your pristine cheeks until you’ve tasted a drop of sweet redemption. I see you’re of the belief that you are indeed special, that you think there’s freewill in addition to fate. I say fuck the delta. Did you choose to be who you were born to be? Far more than a tautology. Yes, I did not suspect so. I see those little insecurities gnawing at your being like tapeworms, those pitiful improprieties clawing your reasoning and honest labor. Why don’t you savor the moment and know that you’re whole and feel no real need to speak more than you know. Bitch, be humble. So?