"He was my best friend."
Come at once if convenient.
/
Let us go then, You and I.
But he's going nowhere fast
On dead weight.
Lost friends he doesn't care about;
Conversations that dry up after
"You were in Afghanistan, yeah?"
/
"The name is
Sherlock
(consulting)
Holmes
(detective)
And you were in Afghanistan."
It's not a question. He's got distant family, a small life, bum leg, therapy.
So alone.
"Quite correctly I'm afraid."
"Do I dare?"
/
He is amazing.
Extraordinary. You think so?
"Oh, God yes."
Whatever had been a chance (a game)
Was the right one (a great one).
There will always be something to look forward to.
Not going to be alone; The Most Ridiculous Thing you've ever done.
The name is
Sherlock
(favorite)
Holmes
(psychopath)
And indeed there will be time to wonder.
/
He loves a good puzzle
And a good murder.
And he likes to blog about it; more interesting than 242 types of tobacco ash.
(243)
But the games come at a price: opposition.
"The name is
Jim
(Sherlock)
Moriarty
(Holmes)
And this is about you and me."
He almost dies at The Pool
Where Jim probably drowned that kid
But more importantly
He lived a lot more, and he owed him that.
And he dared
Because that's what people do.
/
In the room, The Woman comes and goes
Crumbling nations beneath heels;
Nothing no matter how far does not fall to her mercy
During battle
(lucky boy).
But He knows that every Key has a Lock.
Even so, to him she'll always be The Woman
"Who beat you."
The name is
Sherlock
(The)
Holmes
(Virgin)
He dared disturb the universe.
/
Sometimes he wants to say how much he owes to him
And how his life is centered around The Detective
Like the Earth around the Sun.
But that would be silly,
Who needs to know either of those things?
/
And who is he?
When all aliases are mere self-portraits
(The Detective
The Criminal
The Woman
The Blogger?)
He wonders and thinks he should have no questions if this is the end
But really, the end is just the Final Problem.
Does anyone know?
No.
"Oh, God no."
No One Could Be That Clever.
She did say that He believes in a high power (Himself)
And doesn't all believing require some Leap of Faith?
The name is
Sherlock
(fake)
Holmes
(genius)
And it takes daring the universe to realize (so alone) that he owed him so much.
/
"My best friend, Sherlock Holmes, is dead."
If inconvenient, come anyway.
