Be Not Perfect

This is more of a free flow than a poem. Perhaps even a bit of a rant. Just had to get these words out of my mind, before they clog my throat....

For all these years you have been perfect,

Or at least trying to make it so.

I watch now as you tell the world,

How their dreams cannot come true.

At each and every turn,

There are risks that should not be taken,

There are worries to gripping,

And so you cannot move.

It is best to be comfortable,

In your stable world,

Than take the risks,

That seeking pleasures bring.

I have allowed your views,

To bind me,

To make me think that I’m at fault.

To see you seek to bind our children,

In that doubtful thought,

Is too much for my heart to bear,

And so I write these words.

Seek not the comfort of stability,

But risk the pleasure path.

Live a life of honest joy,

And the heartache that it brings.

Because the pleasure of your soul,

Will outweigh any doubt.

And joyful justly sought,

Will erase all pain’s degrees.

For you the path is set in stone,

I cannot change your journey.

Perhaps I can but alter mine,

To free me from your bile.

I certainly can teach our children,

What the risk is worth,

And help them realize the joy,

Of pleasure well deserved.

Reviews

[kimmy]

This amazing and I know relationships sometime.. I have been there where you just put your everything into and in the end it does not work, and then is life about love? just what they can get from someone? It is crazy...Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

[Claudia Stark]

Very beautiful and hopeful!

[Tarry Franck]

Very well said!!!! Bravo :)

[Casper Dumass Lecroix]

Damn good dudet, I like it. Better happy on a bumpy road, than stuck in suck on smooth. Lesson well learned

[David Scott]

How do we let go without destroying what we value? Do we value pleasure above all else? Maybe money above all else? Maybe religion above all else? Would you value others happiness above your own? The truth us some type of balance I think.
Enjoyed the write!

[quinfinn]

funny, isn't it, how we seem to want to take that risk in a loving relationship only to discover that our significant other has lost their courage and zeal for pleasure and tries to stifle all around them to feel security....life can be an encumberment without the joys of risk and discovery. goodbye to sweet mystery and hello to drudgery and imprisonment.....well done, poet!

[Sir Jaykom]

ENjoyed reading this. The true pleasures of live comes with some risks. nice work.

[Dr. Wood ?]

I agree with the last review completely..this seems so personal and VERY serious..You have portrayed this with some skill

[soliloquy]

Such a serious one here...... Fill of strong meaning and emotion. I am curious.

[Damien Davison]

Great poem, really. It flowed nice and the rhyming was great. Content was empowering and I'm sure people can relate!