"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.