Did you know there are infinitely more rhymes for "scalpel" than "love"?

Sleepless nights

And

sleepless fights

Cascading

Through the living room:

Unmade beds

And

Unwed threads

In the corners of my heart

Conscripted hearts

Can’t

Help but keep them apart

On the lam,

A little more

lost

Each and every year.

Something missing

Useless pissing

Hopeless passing

Hope is passing

In the throes

Of still more

Frightening foes.

Breaking even

Never broke me

This much

Till now.

Beneficence

never went

hand in hand

With malevolence

till you wielded

The love-sick

scalpel.

Drunkenly wheeling

as I steady you

Stabbing my guts

Again

Again.

There it is.

You’ve pierced

The heart now

Now,

push a little deeper

Now

dig a little further

Now.

No?

All right.

We can stop there

for now.

I hope

this session was suitable.

I hope

This lesson was fruitful.