Mercy Killing

"Please..." she struggled tearfully, her face contorted into the anguish of a million broken and abused heartbreaks. "PLEASE!" She cried louder, as a thousand times before, "Why can't you just love me?"

"But I do." came the flat, dispassionate reply. And finally, after years of carefully placed scars and even more carefully constructed denials, the speaker dug the blade in in hard enough to prevent any further torture.