Best Perfect

Dedicated to young love

Today I feel most pronounced, best perfect
For this day is my entrance to the world,
Well, the celebration anyway,
For no more am I fourscore less four,
Now I am three dozen minus one!
Let me tell you all I have learned
For this is as far as I have gone,
And what I know is the truth most pronounced,
Best perfect

By now, undoubtedly, I know all that of trust
Because I've started to notice adulthood,
Well, the ones who raised me,
And I guess the ones who raised friends,
They have shown my unerring eyes!
I have seen what it means to place
Your faith absolute in someone and,
How it looks to me when that faith is broken,
Worst painful

And, absolutely, I know all there is of lust
How I've looked upon the w****s and s***s,
(I used to call some my friends),
Judgment came easy, because the perfect ones,
You know, like some of us,
Know that pure and monogamous is
Easy as we never have to question
Because nothing can arise to bring inquiry to,
Best perfect

You see, the past is already behind my eyes
All that puppy love stuff they write is
Well it just has to be about them,
You know, those people who didn't do
It right as right as me,
And him, he told me he's in on it too!
There's only bliss, castles and shining armour
Now all the bad things are past-gone no-more-
Worst painful

Don't think I've forgotten 'bout commitment,
Because I can imagine how long it is,
If I count on my fingers anyway,
When I say twice my age away at least,
Fourscore and a dozen with two!
I know certainly I will change
Grow, mature, blah blah, whatever,
But I know forever the same idea of love
Best perfect

Oh, I know I'm in this for the long haul,
It's already almost been a season past
And I know when bad times,
Pfft, like I would experience any with him,
That no other will be shiny-new,
And exciting my loins with new winks
And making me wonder about life over there
With the shiny-new kiss...  Whoops, wait,
Worst painful

My heart is most unfickle, I'm old for my age
I'll never get tired of the tedium or,
Get bored of his stupid face or,
Get annoyed with his little habits from years
We spent in love naive
Because I know what it will be to be there
When he looks at the other girls' asses
Dreams of f*****g them instead of me, thinking,
Best perfect

Now that I'm old enough to choose him complete,
Even though I get carded to buy vodka,
It doesn't change how my paradigm feels,
At this exact-very moment,
And I will never betray him or go against
Anything he will ever think to say
I know the secret of choosing him forever,
Forever isn't all that long, just avoid
Worst painful

How wonderful it is that I educated myself
Formed these opinions that have never,
Ever, ever, never ever, never,
Been formed before, been thought before,
Been tried before,
Been failed at before, been anything close
To what we have, what we are together
We are in love, our love is
Best perfect.

Author's Note

Call it reactionary.

Reviews

As you call it a celebration of idiocy in youth, I call it a brilliant peace of self-knowlegde. An eye-opener to the world, with now and then a little "wink" in between.

My favorite sparkling lines:

1. All that puppy love stuff they write... (brilliant)
2. How wonderful it is that I educated myself (reality)

[Sarah Redigan]

absolutely brilliant

[Ruth]

Idiocy is something we travel through to learn :)
This is brilliant work...what strikes me about it is the depth to it, a superb flow to read through, cleverly thought through!
There is so much suffered and balanced within this piece it is mind blowing and I admire the way it is written, as if spoken :)
Wonderful poem
xoxo

[Me]

You penned this picture of life to perfection - - - a captivating read

[tekphobik]

It's a celebration of idiocy in youth :)

[joshua deathdealer]

This is nice. I like all the different feelings that come out in this poem. I really enjoyed it. Nice work.