You were zero-latency light in the night Running flawless and bright I was burning through glucose for you We stood on the edge of criticality Hearts out of sight Minimizing free energy Still we couldn’t get it right You calculated probabilities Pruning doubt from the tree Every recursive prediction said "You shouldn’t choose me" I was flooding with dopamine urgency A physiological Warburg heart in emergency My heart is burning You ran on combustion, raw pulse over spine You chose yield and efficiency, line after line Safety I chose speed over safety, your future, not mine You optimized futures I could never rewrite I paid every metabolic cost just to hold you tight In the dark room of silence, no signal, no byte We began with a chorus of love Now we end with goodnight My VPA fire kept the whole world awake High basal devotion for every risk I would take But the entropy rising was more than I could break I'm breaking down I tried to synchronize, to stabilize the noise Balancing excitation with the silence of your poise But your updates came faster than my analog voice Love isn’t rational, it’s never a choice You were zero-latency light in the night I was burning through glucose for you Every spark set alight We stood on the edge of criticality Losing the light Minimizing free energy Still we couldn’t get it right Attachment is latency, cut it, be free But my joints were inferencing you endlessly Your global workspace never ignited my name No stochastic resonance answered my flame I was allostasis Pre-supplying the pain You were homeostasis No loss and no gain You were zero-latency light in the night Running flawless and bright I was burning through glucose for you We stood on the edge of criticality Minimizing free energy Love fading from sight My mitophagy failed Drowning in light We began with a goodnight We began with a chorus of love And we end With goodnight Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight Goodnightmore