When you spread open your ribs
Showed me your heart
That’s when I felt closest to you.
Complete.
To be that connected with another person
To see inside him
The dark corners and sunlit paths
But instinct took over
It hurt you to be so vulnerable
And like a wolf in pain,
you lashed out and
longed for solitude.
And now the humane course of action
is to put you down
Forget about you
all of our experiences shared
memories made
kisses with fists and lips and our egos and eyes
You are dead to me.
