With eyebrows raised and brows furrowed
They stared each other down
first, silence reigned supreme
and neither would come around
Then words with the sting of bullets ripped
neither counted cost
of all the love that was before
and all the love new lost.
Blood mixed with tears
Coursed down as one
As bonds long in the making broke
It was only when he stopped breathing
she for the first time spoke
“it was ever mine his life to take
For that a price I’ll pay
I could not go, he would not leave
This was the only way”