For Your Sake?

“…to mould a genius?”
—Charles Baudelaire, ‘“You’d entertain the universe…”’

I re-met the love of my life
To whom I was toxically attached. “It is up to you,”
I said. “Like God, I have so much power and love
In me that I could save

Either you, or the entire universe. You might still believe
All my grandiosity is funny, but it could be the making
Of you and me. Or quite simply, everybody! So
Are we giving it another shot, for your sake?”

And we left together! Back to hers! I could not believe it!
And we made the type of love that only certain bonds
Can make (if you know, you know) and we went off
To other worlds. And it was… otherworldly! Then I slept

Like a baby. Unfortunately, when I woke up
She’d left me! She’d also left me
This note: “It was either me
Or the entire universe, right? You and me

Or everybody? Come on then, boy, as you must surely know
What I have decided now? As I am off
For a new life on my own, for if you save
Everybody, you’ll obviously save poor old me too? Lunatic! Goodbye.”