Buzz of a Gossip

"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you."  ~ Spanish Proverb

you were my friend,

or so I thought,

until you buzzed … buzzed … buzzed

about me to someone lethal

who waited on tenderhooks
eagerly anxious to hear

your acid tongue

burning me to bits

your cutting words

razor-edged axes

hacked-chopped-minced  

me to pieces

buzz … buzz … buzz

you chummed the waters with me

luring in the

slowly circling sharks

which fed on me with frenzied fury

who whirl-whipped water
of white foamed waves

to pinkish froth

by the letting of my

life’s blood

since your final betrayal
I have taken shears in hand
clipping out - your diseased tongue 

by mercilessly pruning away
the hulking dead growth you are
from my life

buzz … buzz … buzz
you will sell my confidences 

to the highest bidder
no more