De-feat

What finally defeats..?

Is it really a vampire's venom?

Or is it...

The thoughtless gesture of a friend

or

the wishful wrath of a green eyed coworker

or

The way you bog in repeated patterns

Perhaps the defeat is

That final blow from

One you trusted beyond strangerhood

And finally realized

one just left

even without a word

without even a way

to reach if in need

Then

you taste

defeat

and

Somehow

departure

matters a null

and the

eye

finally

sees through

what existed

what not.