Boy You Were

Interstellar dust gets in the way again
As I travel back in time, do you remember when
I tried, evidently not too hard, to be your friend?
I recall so well the boy you were back then:

You smile but don't hold out your hand
This reserve I can understand
It saves you from complicity
You're so tough, more than me,
I guess you've had to be.

Can it be a perfect vacuum in your heart?
Every trillion years or so it forms a star
Burning all alone, and so far
Till the day its gravity will tear you apart.

This black hole is your perfect sphere
Forget the intervening years
How I once was the source of your tears.

I am guilty, and you are numb
I've fallen for the man you've become.