He Refutes the Central Tenets of Western Philosophy by Alluding to Rachel's Beauty

Plato says that Heaven is perfect things,
that nothing pure or good exists on earth.
We leave the Ideal World when, at our birth,
like ants who've briefly flown, we shed our wings.

All infants cry, in Shakespeare's view, when first
they leave the womb, to find this Vale of Tears
is what they must inhabit four score years,
dreading the hardship into which they've burst.

Our human life, so Seneca would say,
is prone to failure, suffering and pain.
The only shreds of solace that remain
are stoic calm, acceptance of decay.

They're wrong, of course, to tend towards this view:
but then, my Perfect Girl, they didn't know you. 

Reviews

[Nico Reznick]

Masterful. As ever, your cadence is to die for and your fluency of form is (quite frankly) intimidating! Perfect title; it immediately made me want to read the piece. The construction of the poem is really quite exquisite. So much content is succinctly but still lavishly conveyed in the first three stanzas, and the swerve from the objectively philosophical to the personal at the end is killer.

[Arezzo]

LOL I think I'm in love!

You are WAY too generous, but I'm not complaining!

Muchas gracias (and by the way, I'm Mike)

[Abderrahmane Dakir]

I enjoyed with it thank you for this.