Why don't you just drive a stake
through my heart instead
of shattering me with every word
that you pass on through false
social platforms and textual means. Did you
expect me to sit idle, while you run yourself
ragged and try to obliterate
your every atom? You, of all people,
who has fought for me
when I most needed an ally, you who is stronger
than any I know, you whom I have loved
more than my own life, then how
could I sit on the bleachers, an impassive observer
of your self-initiated implosion?