What Love?

I never loved her.

Why would I? Sure, she has golden tresses of silken hair and beautiful blue eyes that reflect the endless sky in which we live. So her figure is lithe, slender, with curves in the right places. So what? Many others fit that description; girls who look like that are as numerous as the stars.

She's clingy. She's weak. She'll latch onto the support of any man close by when she feels uncertain, which is always. There's every reason in the world not to love her.

No, I don't love her.

Yet, this pain in my heart...