Ten No's

"I can't believe you'd do a thing like this
To me--me of all people," she had said.
She looks into his dark, opaque eyes, dead
To her need for a sensitive kindness
As he spares, callously, some pity dumb.
"Just tell me, please, what's her name? Her name! Please,
Just tell me. Oh, wait: Is she that Chinese
Girl? You know. Her." He sees what she's become,
A jealous monster who deserves no friends,
No help; no, no one should give her love. She
Can rot in hell for all he cares. To be
Free! Freedom! His words on which it depends:
"I know why you're mad. Mad is all I feel;
But I did this, because, I love you still."