regret

i saw her this morning.
she was crying, large innocent eyes peering from under heavily made up
eyelashes. i didn't want to speak to her, after yesterday.
not after what she saw, and i did.
a deep,acute pain filled me, flooding from my chest.
it felt as though someone had lit a silver, frozen flame in my
heart,
and it burnt through flesh and muscle unrelentlessly.
i cried too, and the regret overcame me.