Once I’d given you
Your heart’s desire, my presence
Was superfluous.
That revelation
Left me gutted on the floor,
Screaming and bleeding.

Once I’d given you
Your heart’s desire, my presence
Was superfluous.
That revelation
Left me gutted on the floor,
Screaming and bleeding.
She is a hydra,
The harder I fight, the worse
It gets, sharper knives.
Broken hearted, and
Dispirited; I cannot
Return to where they
Gather and play. I
Spoil the rhythm, upset
Those I want to please.
Lost in the woods on
My morning jog, I found my
Way and returned home.
But everything had
Changed. My cherished wife was now
My foe, having been
Instructed on the great
Litany of my wrongs by
Some unknown scribe. She
Viewed me askance, and
All my efforts to engage
Were thwarted. Broken,
Dissolute, the streets
I wandered until
The beat of some infernal
Drum summoned me to
March, in a crowd of
Damned like me. We followed the
Rhythm, to our doom.
Exasperation
Defines our every exchange
Yet still I remain
Is it love or is
It inertia? I can’t feel
Your love anymore
Still you unravel
The threads of my tapestry
Exposing me as
Desperate, faded,
Exhausted, fearful, ready
For it to all end.
Let my joylessness
Migrate elsewhere, that I may
Begin life anew.
Your mouth once was so
Succulent to me, now it
Is ashes and death
Shame saturated
Me to the core, rendering
My love cold and dead