That Word Optional

Extra
Additives
Amenities
And
Options
Things you ask for that
When you get
You feel special
Triumphant
But with love
Optional
Is like
Depletion
Subtraction
Take away
Rape
Because someone
Just loss a
Piece of themselves
And
From this torture
There seems no escape
Being optional
Means the existence of
The heart is not considered
How can such a viable
Presence be disregarded
Being left out on purpose
If not to rise
To the top
Forefront
Or head of the line
Of choices
Is simple demise
Sanguinate
Passion gone dry
Blood has left
The body
The eyes
Cry
Breath is strangled
Love is left gasping
Sleep has married
Insomnia
Together they make
Baby stress
The art of napping
Has left
No one’s laughing
No one loves
No one’s caring
That word optional.