Once a love interest,

Today rarely interesting

Those flinty persuasions no longer enchanting,

Legerdemain too craven and heavy-handed,

Suffocating in silence unpractical,

Hostility much too lethal

She plundered his power,

Leaving him with a case of mental castration

He chewed your rhetoric while swallowing his metaphorical testicles,

Escaping her cold, unforgiving bosom was the only appropriate response