Neglect
There’s a line
between
benign neglect
and
malign neglect.
No place where they transect
except perhaps
in that almost void
where friendships are dissected.
Where those bonds
of emotional ligature
are disconnected.
The ties once laid down
with such gentle deliberation
now sabotaged
abandoned
every day
a little death
as you sink
our relation
ship.
Your absent pen
a present scalpel
dishonoring what was once
live and sacred.
These tendons needed tending,
not ending,
not
neglect.
MCO 2004
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