Maybe once
Long ago
There was
    something good
Buried inside of me
But it wasn’t alone
Too long it festered
With dark things
Now poisoned
Corrupted
Anything good
Has since faded

Some night
Long from now
The last star
Will have lost it’s light

The universe will
Forever more
Be dark
Cold and silent

And none of this
Will have mattered
And somehow
I find peace in that

You look for that thing
That thing that might save you
Reaching your hand out grasping
But you realize that saving you
Will destroy that thing

So I take my hand back
Saving her by letting myself decay
I refuse to contaminate her
Even if she’s the only thing
That might save my soul