Jealousy

Jealousy is the killer
of dreams...trust...love...life...
sliding insidiously into a mind
like a leech...sucking and draining out
anything good and pure...
so many relationships destroyed...
too many lives taken...
over imaginations...of betrayal...
simply gone wild and unchecked...
if jealousy could be prosecuted
in the court of human emotions...
it would receive a life sentence
without chance of parole...
or a death sentence
without hope of commutation............