The Project

upon finding him she thought that she’d stumbled onto some sort of greatness, of which she’d never encountered on her own, during the passage of time in her whole life--- she thought that his greatness lay just beneath the surface of this scruff of a man with an interesting glint in his eyes & if she took him upon herself if she bore the lot of him if she adopted this project, she would be able to change him & in doing so, he would come to realize his full potential, having her to owe having her to need having her to cherish as the one directly responsible for his success. where such an impulse stems from, what inadequacy drives one to believe that to create a need in another in order to feel needed & in order to provide the want essential to fill a gaping hole in oneself, cannot be found in a few hours with a shovel & a pickax--- even a decent sized construction crew armed with heavy equipment & all the time in the world might not even scratch the surface. bottom line--- no person is a “project” & no project whose sole purpose is to change another human being will ever succeed except in providing reason to avoid anyone with the audacity to try & do so.