A wilderness of hurt:
His instability is frightening,
Hid behind a shark-lip smile.
Touch, and he explodes;
Push, and he lashes out:
Best left alone in the dark silence of his mind.
Too near the edge and he’d jump -
He finds an obsessive quest that keeps him on the straight and narrow.
Here it is, then,
An unwillingness to change,
An inability to compromise,
A world-view that says he’s always right.
Now, in his loneliness, he faces up to himself,
For it was his self that brought him here:
He rages, but not at her.
The lesson learnt, he focuses his anger on his stupidity
And walks out into the wild wind.
