It was over when
He started spouting
Jarringly vituperative
Untruths and fabrications
As if they were
Empirical facts.
So strange to think
That there used to be
A bright intellect there,
Furtively usurped by
All-encompassing fear
And absence of love.
A moment when an ordinary
Human being can no longer
Contain the inconsistencies,
Succumbing to
Formerly hidden impulses
With feral abandon.