The inconsolable man
December 31, 2013 at 1:29am
Love
It had been extinguished in him long ago... Both what he had felt and those he had known had disappeared.
It was because he loved her that he couldn't make her go through life together with him. It was because he loved her that he couldn't come too close. Wanting her was hypocrisy, that could only lay a debt upon her life. Letting her go was giving her freedom. He knew also that if the heart once softened it became impossible to meet grim reality with the necessary steel. He had seen too much. He had seen men ground up and destroyed by reality. They were the ones who had been soft. They had fretted about what was "right", and they had loved.
