The Dangerous One

that breaks their hearts
lives in a shell and inside is me
or you, recreating ourselves
one small, failed, project
after another but learning
to live with it, even though
we grow deeper with meaning
at every annoyance,
with every impairment,
the lines drawing deeper
to the emergence of our true natures,
falling, wrestling, damaging
the furniture and, bruised,
stonished at the void where
we thought there would be so many.