rumbling resonances echo
cracking, breaking, smashing
glass shards skitter like fallen ice skaters,
fingernails scour the wooden desk--
searing splinters pierce the cuticles
but no pain compares to what you've done.

my head, spinning with detested thoughts,
beats unmercifully
choking my senses
shrouding the world from view.
why did you do it?

I watch the hatred streak my vision
with blackened colors,
I taste the acidity of the anger as it ruptures
slowly seeping through the skin,
I feel the sadness swell, but never burst--
I feel no compassion,
no sympathy,
nothing for you.

I tire of the lies, the screams
the tears
but no apology can ease the pain or
the sickness I feel...

my eyes weigh on the tattered case
as I beg for it all to stop;
it slides easily from its sheath, the blade
glinting with my tear-worn reflection
as if it has already captured my butchered soul.
I've dealt with your endless deceit long enough.

my head falls back,
cold metal kisses my skin
my redemption splatters and
splendidly saturates my final sanctum
with insufferable
and forgotten memories of you.